[Dan] > Dan> The floating-point representation of 95.895 is exactly > Dan> 6748010722917089 * 2**-46.
[Skip Montanaro] > I seem to recall seeing some way to extract/calculate fp representation from > Python but can't find it now. I didn't see anything obvious in the > distribution. For Dan's example, >>> import math >>> math.frexp(95.895) (0.74917968749999997, 7) >>> int(math.ldexp(_[0], 53)) 6748010722917089L -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
