[Tutor] A couple newbie questions about Python
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 12 10:18:16 CEST 2014
Please don't top post, it makes following a long thread extremely
difficult, thanks.
On 12/06/2014 03:47, Deb Wyatt wrote:
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> Thanks very much Alan. As for the my concern about inaccuracy in float math, I suppose I am concerned because I was not aware of the issue before, and I wonder how you deal with such things when you need accuracy for financial things.
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> Deb in WA, USA
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Besides Alan's previous statement about using integers you can also use
things like Python's decimal module see
https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#module-decimal
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