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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	docs@python, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, ygale
Date	2010-08-03.21:06:31
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Message-id	<1280869593.66.0.292381132386.issue9498@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> it could theoretically not be true someday on some weird platform even for CPython. Granted. Though it would be quite a major change: the 'double' part is heavily hard-coded throughout. > How about just adding this: "Floating point numbers are usually > implemented using double in C." Then at least we're not committing > ourselves to anything. That sounds fine to me.

> it could theoretically not be true someday on some weird platform even for CPython.

Granted.  Though it would be quite a major change: the 'double' part is heavily hard-coded throughout.

> How about just adding this: "Floating point numbers are usually
> implemented using double in C." Then at least we're not committing 
> ourselves to anything.

That sounds fine to me.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-08-03 21:06:33	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, georg.brandl, ygale, docs@python
2010-08-03 21:06:33	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <1280869593.66.0.292381132386.issue9498@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2010-08-03 21:06:31	mark.dickinson	create