[issue4637] Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic

2008-12-11 Thread Retro
New submission from Retro vinet...@gmail.com: Please consider of making the default floating point arithmetic in Python 3.x be decimal floating point arithmetic. -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 77645 nosy: Retro, gvanrossum severity: normal status: open title: Binary floating

[issue4637] Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic

2008-12-11 Thread Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment: This was discussed recently on python-dev (or was it python-ideas). The world is not ready for this. Please refer to the archive for motivation. -- resolution: - rejected status: open - closed