[Python-Dev] calculator module (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Wed Mar 10 13:33:20 EST 2004

Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com> writes:

Further, I'd argue that since Decimal can work with numbers of arbitrary precision, an implementation of (say) exp that works on Decimals ought to work with something like full precision, unless it's only intended for casual use. Writing implementations of all these things would be a considerable amount of work.

Have you played with Jurgen Bos' real.py? I'm not sure it's useful, but I think you'll like it :-)

Cheers, mwh

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