particularly long ago, tcl made some *very bad* decisions about floating point numbers -- after every operation, they were converted back to strings with a small number of decimal places. modern tcl has improved this situation considerably by having a sane default for the string representation of numbers, and by not always converting a number to a string whenever it's e.g., stored in a variable.
In python you do not have this kind of difficulty (all floating-point data is calculated and stored as C "double"s and you have to explicitly request conversions that lose precision, such as conversion to string) and in fact many people use python for serious numerics. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
