Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote:
>If you are giving a talk about Decimal -- and trying to stamp out the
>inappropriate use of floats you have to first inform people that
>what they learned as 'decimals' as children was not floating point,
>despite the fact that we write them the same way. ...
To be fair, prior to electronic computers, they were essentially
synonymous. It's a bit like finance experts chiding people for mixing
"cost" with "price".
>>> Decimal('0.3')
Decimal('0.3')
>>> Decimal(0.3)
Decimal('0.299999999999999988897769753748434595763683319091796875')
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