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Author	noam
Recipients	alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, nascheme, noam, preston, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date	2009-03-02.00:00:11
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Message-id	<1235952016.38.0.813284328824.issue1580@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'm sorry, but it seems to me that the conclusion of the discussion in 2008 is that the algorithm should simply use the system's binary-to-decimal routine, and if the result is like 123.456, round it to 15 digits after the 0, check if the result evaluates to the original value, and if so, return the rounded result. This would satisfy most people, and has no need for complex rounding algorithms. Am I mistaken? If I implement this, will anybody be interested? Noam

I'm sorry, but it seems to me that the conclusion of the discussion in
2008 is that the algorithm should simply use the system's
binary-to-decimal routine, and if the result is like 123.456, round it
to 15 digits after the 0, check if the result evaluates to the original
value, and if so, return the rounded result. This would satisfy most
people, and has no need for complex rounding algorithms. Am I mistaken?

If I implement this, will anybody be interested?

Noam

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-03-02 00:00:16	noam	set	recipients: + noam, gvanrossum, tim.peters, nascheme, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, alexandre.vassalotti, preston
2009-03-02 00:00:16	noam	set	messageid: <1235952016.38.0.813284328824.issue1580@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2009-03-02 00:00:11	noam	create