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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients hac.man, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
Date 2012-09-08.10:54:04
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> read-only interface:
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>     x.sign   -> 0 or 1 (perhaps even 1 or -1)
>     x.coeff  -> Python integer
>     x.exp    -> Python integer

The only slightly awkward thing with this (for high-precision decimals) is the quadratic conversion (well, okay, perhaps subquadratic depending on what algorithms are being used, but still ...) required to get from the decimal coefficient to a Python integer, and vice versa.  It may be better to use a (byte)string of digits instead of a Python integer for the coefficient.
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