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Thu Mar 11 06:02:17 EST 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-March/043063.html

On Wednesday 2004-03-10 18:33, Michael Hudson wrote:

> Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan at synaptics-uk.com> writes:
>
> > Further, I'd argue that since Decimal can work with numbers of
> > arbitrary precision, an implementation of (say) exp that works on
> > Decimals ought to work with something like full precision, unless
> > it's *only* intended for casual use. Writing implementations of all
> > these things would be a considerable amount of work.
>
> Have you played with Jurgen Bos' real.py?  I'm not sure it's useful,
> but I think you'll like it :-)

I think I have, some time ago. I also have something similar
of my own written in Common Lisp.

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