On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd say that bin and hex are special: bin is natural because > floats are usually thought of, and stored as, binary numbers. > hex is special because it gives a compact way of representing > a float, and because there's already a history of using hex > floats in numerical analysis literature and in programming > languages (C99, Java, ...)
Can you show us what APIs and output formats C99 and Java support? Maybe we can borrow something from there rather than reinventing the wheel? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
