Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org> added the comment:
Yes, but you get the first 1 bit for free. So it actually only uses 30 bits of storage inside the double. This is apparently called "leading bit convention": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Representation_and_encoding_in_memory ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39484> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
