New submission from Aaron Maenpaa <aa...@maenpaa.ca>: The paragraph: "The exactness carries over into arithmetic. In decimal floating point, 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 - 0.3 is exactly equal to zero. In binary floating point, the result is 5.5511151231257827e-017. While near to zero, the differences prevent reliable equality testing and differences can accumulate. For this reason, decimal is preferred in accounting applications which have strict equality invariants."
... has some awkward phrasing to my ear. I've attached a patch with a proposed alternative. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: rephrase.diff keywords: patch messages: 150814 nosy: docs@python, zacherates priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Awkward phrasing in Decimal documentation versions: Python 3.3 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24165/rephrase.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13731> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
