On Jun 11, 11:48 am, Frank Millman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all for the various replies. They have all helped me to > refine my ideas on the subject. These are my latest thoughts. > [snip] > > My main concern is that my approach may be naive, and that I will run > into situations that I have not catered for, resulting in errors. If > this is the case, I will drop this like a hot potato and stick to the > Decimal type. Can anyone point out any pitfalls I might be unaware of? > > I will be happy to show the code for the new Number class if anyone is > interested. >
Thanks again for all the really useful replies. I will have a look at gmpy, and I will study FixedPoint.py closely. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list