[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 21 23:50:26 CET 2010
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Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Since decimal also allows arbitrary sizes, all long ints can be exactly represented (this was even one of the design goals for the decimal module).
There may be something we need to clarify here. I've been imagining that the implicit conversions to Decimal that we're talking about would be done to whatever precision is set in the context. Am I wrong about that? Is the intention to always use enough digits to get an exact representation?
-- Greg
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