In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "per9000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> just a thought: if you *always* work with "floats" with two decimals, |> you are in fact working with integers, but you represent them as a |> floats - confusing for the internal representation.
No, you aren't - you are working with fixed-point, which is something that is neither integers nor floating-point, but is somewhere in between. I am (just) old enough to remember when it was used for numeric work, and to have used it for that myself, but not old enough to have done any numeric work using fixed-point hardware. |> So why not work with int(float * 100) instead? This way you only have |> to take care of roundoffs etc when dividing. And multiplying, and calling most mathematical functions. Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
