Hi Alan That's right, it is the Decimal module I'm trying to understand. And, it is how to represent a decimal floating point number as a common/vulgar fraction eg 1.234 = 1234/1000. How do you do this using the Decimal module? The motivation is to avoid floating point calculations and use integers only (don't ask why!). Cheers!
Dinesh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:03:05 -0000 From: "Alan Gauld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Decimal fixed point representation To: tutor@python.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original "Dinesh B Vadhia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'm trying to get my head around the Decimal module to > understand how to represent a decimal floating point > number as an integer (or integers). I'm not sure what you mean by that. Is it the use of the Decimal module you are querying? Is it how to represent a ecimal fraction as an integer - ie how to lose the numbers after the point? Is it how to represent it as a common/vulgar fraction eg 1.234 = 1234/1000 Or something else? > Am I barking mad or is this possible? It is possible that you are barking mad I suppose. As to whether what you are asking about decimals is possible, that depends on what you are actually asking :-) Alan G
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