On Sunday, May 29, 2011 7:53:59 PM UTC-7, Chris Angelico wrote: > Okay, here's a question. The Python 'float' value - is it meant to be > "a Python representation of an IEEE double-precision floating point > value", or "a Python representation of a real number"?
The former. Unlike the case with integers, there is no way that I know of to represent an abstract real number on a digital computer. Python also includes several IEEE-defined operations in its library (math.isnan, math.frexp). Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
