On May 21, 2:44 pm, "Jerry Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My understand is no, not if you're using IEEE floating point. Yes, that would explain it. I assumed that Python automatically switched from hardware floating point to multi-precision floating point so that the user is guaranteed to always get correctly rounded results for +, -, *, and /, like Flaming Thunder gives. Correct rounding and accurate results are fairly crucial to mathematical and scientific programming, in my opinion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
