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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> What makes you think that Python supports IEEE-754 for floats?

That would be an easy impression to get from this long rambling thread.
The argument that Python's ‘float’ type is not meant to be anything
*but* an IEEE 754 floating point type has been made several times.

What would you say Python's ‘float’ type is intended to be, if not an
IEEE 754 floating point type?

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