[Python-Dev] PEP 3188: Implementation Questions

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Feb 26 23:08:14 CET 2010


Meador Inge wrote:

> 3. Using Decimal keeps the desired precision,

Well, sort of, but then you end up doing arithmetic in
decimal instead of binary, which could give different
results.

Maybe the solution is to give ctypes long double objects
the ability to do arithmetic?

-- 
Greg


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