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Author	noam
Recipients	christian.heimes, gvanrossum, nascheme, noam, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date	2007-12-11.23:46:57
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Message-id	<b348a0850712111546j52458e2br26c171a1b01516e1@mail.gmail.com>
In-reply-to	<ca471dc20712111514y7eb8a5dctde30a931584dfe32@mail.gmail.com>

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If I were in that situation I would prefer to store the binary representation. But if someone really needs to store decimal floats, we can add a method "fast_repr" which always calculates 17 decimal digits. Decimal to binary conversion, in any case, shouldn't be slower than it is now, since on Gnu it is done anyway, and I don't think that our implementation should be much slower.

If I were in that situation I would prefer to store the binary
representation. But if someone really needs to store decimal floats,
we can add a method "fast_repr" which always calculates 17 decimal
digits.

Decimal to binary conversion, in any case, shouldn't be slower than it
is now, since on Gnu it is done anyway, and I don't think that our
implementation should be much slower.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-12-11 23:46:57	noam	set	spambayes_score: 0.042985 -> 0.042984955 recipients: + noam, gvanrossum, tim.peters, nascheme, rhettinger, christian.heimes
2007-12-11 23:46:57	noam	link	issue1580 messages
2007-12-11 23:46:57	noam	create