[Python-Dev] Decimal data type issues (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 18 05:40:41 EDT 2004


"Batista, Facundo" <FBatista at uniFON.com.ar>:

And positions is the number of digits after the decimal point at which you want to round the number you're creating from and discard the other digits.

Most people call that "decimal places".

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