[Matrix-SIG] Numeric Nits

[Konrad Hinsen]

> If one is going to do anything to Python or Numeric's precision we ought to
> go for the gold and be the SECOND language in which it is possible to do
> portable numerical programming. The current definition of a default real in

I like that idea - but how would one implement it in portable C? And
what would Python do to satisfy "unreasonable" precision requests? Use
some arbitrary-precision library? In fact, what do Fortran 90 compilers
do?

BTW, I'd also prefer Python integers to be of the same size on all
machines, most of all to be able to deal with binary files in a
portable way.
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