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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, gvanrossum, mark.dickinson, nascheme, noam, rhettinger, skip.montanaro, tim.peters
Date 2008-07-08.09:24:54
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[Tim]

> If you think using 16 (when possible) will stop complaints, think again
> ;-)  For example, ...

Aha!  But using *15* digits would be enough to eliminate all 1, 2, 3, 4, 
..., 15 digit 'surprises', wouldn't it?!  16 digits doesn't quite work, 
essentially because 2**-53 is still a little larger than 10**-16, but 15 
digits ought to be okay.
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