[Python-Dev] Expert floats (original) (raw)

Andrew Koenig ark-mlist at att.net
Wed Mar 31 15:59:12 EST 2004


import Decimal d1 = Decimal.Decimal('1E50') d2 = Decimal.Decimal('1E-50') d1 + d2 Decimal( (0, (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), 42L) ) d1 + d2 == d1 True Decimal.getcontext().prec = 1000 d1 + d2 == d1 False d1 + d2 Decimal( (0, (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1), -50L) )

Very nice!



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