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Wed Jan 18 17:39:38 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059889.html

On 1/18/06, Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I think supporting arbitrary bases for floats is way overkill and not
> worth considering.

If you mean actual base-3 floating-point arithmetic, I agree.  That's
outlandish.

But if there were a stdlib function to format floats losslessly in hex
or binary, Tim Peters would use it at least once every six weeks to
illustrate the finer points of floating point arithmetic. <0.00390625
wink>

+1.0

-j

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