In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keflavich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hey, I have a bit of code that died on a domain error when doing an >arcsin, and apparently it's because floating point subtraction is >having problems. I know about the impossibility of storing floating >point numbers precisely, but I was under the impression that the >standard used for that last digit would prevent subtraction errors >from compounding. > >Is there a simple solution to this problem, or do I need to run some >sort of check at every subtraction to make sure that my float does not >deviate? I'm not sure I know even how to do that.
Switch to Decimal module? Available in 2.4 and later. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." --Roy Smith -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
