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Author ygale
Recipients docs@python, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, ygale
Date 2010-08-03.21:03:07
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It's not necessarily true for other than CPython, and it could theoretically not be true someday on some weird platform even for CPython.
 
How about just adding this: "Floating point numbers are usually implemented using double in C." Then at least we're not committing ourselves to anything.
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