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Author	skrah
Recipients	Keith.Brafford, eric.smith, ezio.melotti, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serge.stroobandt, skrah, tim.peters
Date	2016-01-27.21:01:33
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Message-id	<1453928493.95.0.922292220878.issue26223@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The spec was the only reasonable choice at the time decimal.py was written. Incidentally, it is basically IEEE-754-2008 with arbitrary precision extensions; this isn't surprising since Mike Cowlishaw was on the IEEE committee and wrote the spec at the same time. There are very few decNumber-specific remainders in the spec -- this may be one of those (though I did not bother to look up if the IEEE standard specifies formatting at all).

The spec was the only reasonable choice at the time decimal.py was
written.  Incidentally, it is basically IEEE-754-2008 with arbitrary
precision extensions; this isn't surprising since Mike Cowlishaw was
on the IEEE committee and wrote the spec at the same time.

There are very few decNumber-specific remainders in the spec -- this
may be one of those (though I did not bother to look up if the IEEE
standard specifies formatting at all).

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