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Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic #48887

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Retro mannequin opened this issue Dec 11, 2008 · 2 comments
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Binary floating point and decimal floating point arithmetic #48887

Retro mannequin opened this issue Dec 11, 2008 · 2 comments
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interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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Retro mannequin commented Dec 11, 2008

BPO 4637
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Retro mannequin commented Dec 11, 2008

Please consider of making the default floating point arithmetic in
Python 3.x be decimal floating point arithmetic.

@Retro Retro mannequin added interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Dec 11, 2008
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This was discussed recently on python-dev (or was it python-ideas). The
world is not ready for this. Please refer to the archive for motivation.

@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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