On 1/18/06, Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think supporting arbitrary bases for floats is way overkill and not > worth considering.
If you mean actual base-3 floating-point arithmetic, I agree. That's outlandish. But if there were a stdlib function to format floats losslessly in hex or binary, Tim Peters would use it at least once every six weeks to illustrate the finer points of floating point arithmetic. <0.00390625 wink> +1.0 -j _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
