[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 06:08:28PM -0800, Mark H. Harris wrote:

> If you write a number on paper do you write down   '2.01'   ?
> Do you write down    d(2.01)  ?
> Do you write down    2.01d   ?

Sometimes I write down 2.01 subscript 10. That's just a different way of 
spelling 2.01d.

(That's the trouble with rhetorical questions. Sometimes people will 
give an answer other than what you were expecting.)


> (or)   do you write down   2.01     ?
> 
> When you punch a number into your TI89  do you punch in  {'} {2} {.} {0} 
> {1} {'}   ?
> (or)  do you punch in    {2} {.} {0} {1}   ?

For what it's worth, the TI-89 stores numbers using a decimal floating 
point format.



-- 
Steven