Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Remember, the notion of inexactness is a taint,
not an intrinsic property of a type.  Even the Scheme numeric
tower recognizes this.  LIkewise, the decimal specification also
spells-out this notion as basic to its design.

I'm not sure it really does, otherwise every decimal
value would have a flag indicating whether it was
tainted with inexactness, and this flag would propagate
through calculations.

--
Greg
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