Message249848
Victor, there are good "theoretical" reasons for using half/even rounding in _general_ use. But this bug report isn't the place to get into them. Here it just should be enough to note that the IEEE 754 floating point standard _requires_ half/even to be the default rounding mode. Slowly but surely, all the world's non-business computer applications are moving toward that. Python is just one of 'em. |
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2015-09-04 22:38:26 | tim.peters | set | recipients:
+ tim.peters, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, vstinner, larry, r.david.murray, aconrad, BreamoreBoy, vivanov, python-dev, tbarbugli, trcarden |
2015-09-04 22:38:26 | tim.peters | set | messageid: <1441406306.53.0.0762306238477.issue23517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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