[issue3008] Let bin() show floats

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Re-opening for further discussion.

-1 on Nick's suggestion to normalize hex output so that nearby floats 
have nearby reprs.  This unnecessarily complicates a simple, straight-
forward presentation.  In the paper referenced by Terry Reedy, 
normalized presentations were not used and I've never seen that done 
anywhere else.

IMO, the patch is fine as-is.

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status: closed -> open
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10724/float6.diff

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