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Right tool for the job (was: Exact integer-valued floats)

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Subject Right tool for the job (was: Exact integer-valued floats)
Date Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:03:26 +1000
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Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> writes:

> Apologize in advance for top-posting.  My Xoom makes bottom-posting
> awkward.

Surely the better solution, then, is to use a tool which does allow you
to compose a message properly – and abstain from posting until you get
to such a tool.

-- 
 \             “Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have |
  `\                                            others.” —Groucho Marx |
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Ben Finney

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Right tool for the job (was: Exact integer-valued floats) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-09-23 16:03 +1000

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