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Author rhettinger
Recipients akima, facundobatista, jcea, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, skrah
Date 2014-09-01.08:52:44
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> Sorry.  Scratch my last comment.  I see from the docs
>  ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html )
>vthat the decimal module explicitly references that IBM spec. 
> I imagine that standard python arithmatic doesn't even attempt 
> to conform to this ibm spec.

That is exactly correct.

Closing as not-a-bug.
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