From: "Christian Tismer" <tismer@tismer.com> > > Greg> The problem as I see it is not the magnitude of the number, but > > Greg> that the number of significant bits grows without bound, if you > > Greg> never throw any of them away. > > > > So I'm suggesting that maybe it won't get bad as quickly if > > you keep only the significant bits :-) > > Yes. And this is what a rounding to float would do for you. That is unless you wanted more precision than comes with a float. Normalization to some arbitrary maximum denominator magnitude would be a more general purpose solution. Raymond Hettinger
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