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Author rhettinger
Recipients alexandre.vassalotti, amaury.forgeotdarc, christian.heimes, eric.smith, gvanrossum, jaredgrubb, mark.dickinson, nascheme, noam, pitrou, preston, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2009-04-18.23:52:32
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Message-id <1240098753.99.0.889850542231.issue1580@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The advantage is accuracy.  No double rounding.  This will also help the
math.fsum() function that is also susceptible to double rounding.
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2009-04-18 23:52:34rhettingersetrecipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum, tim.peters, nascheme, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, eric.smith, christian.heimes, alexandre.vassalotti, noam, jaredgrubb, preston
2009-04-18 23:52:33rhettingersetmessageid: <1240098753.99.0.889850542231.issue1580@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-04-18 23:52:33rhettingerlinkissue1580 messages
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