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

Shane Hathaway shane at zope.com
Tue Mar 30 23🔞27 EST 2004

On 03/30/04 22:49, Josiah Carlson wrote:

Python uses the 8-byte FP, not the (arguably worthless) 4-bit FP.

^^^^^ Yes, most people have hardware a little more sophisticated than an Intel 4004 these days. :-) Oops, I slipped. I meant 4-byte. My bad. ;)

ROFL! I can just imagine:

bit 0 - mantissa (lower bit) bit 1 - mantissa (upper bit) bit 2 - exponent bit 3 - sign

Now who's complaining about rounding errors?

Shane

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