[Python-Dev] Re: Decimal type question [Prothon] (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Aug 10 03:52:30 CEST 2004

Worse still is the fact that the exponent in the e notation is a decimal exponent, but the type used is binary!

Indeed. If someone really wants a binary float, I think they should have to write it in hex. If they can't cope with that, they've no business using binary floats.

<0xd37c*pow(2,-0x10) wink>,

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