Mark Dickinson wrote:
Except that float is fixed-width (typically 53 bits of precision), while Decimal allows a user-specified, arbitrarily large, precision;
Yes, but it still has *some* fixed limit at any given moment, so the result of an operation on Decimals always has the potential to produce an inexact result. It's not like an int or Fraction where the result can expand to whatever size is needed. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
