Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> writes: > Keith Thompson wrote: >> Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> writes: >> [...] >>> >>> print c # floating point accuracy aside >>> 299792458.0 m/s >> >> Actually, the speed of light is exactly 299792458.0 m/s by >> definition. (The meter and the second are defined in terms of the >> same wavelength of light; this was changed relatively recently.) > > I know. Hence why I wrote the comment "floating point accuracy aside" > when printing it.
Ok. I took the comment to be an indication that the figure was subject to floating point accuracy concerns; in fact you meant just the opposite. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks...@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> Nokia "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
