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On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 09:55:27 +0100, Mark Lawrence
<breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> I'm just wondering out aloud if the number of times this type of thread 
> has been debated here will fit into a Python long or float?

	Well, since I don't think one can have a fractional debate (maybe if
someone starts a thread and NOBODY ever follows up on it), then float's
don't gain us anything there.

	Presuming a double-precision float, we would have 14-15 significant
digits for the mantissa -- so anything greater than
(9)99,999,999,999,999 will have lost accuracy. In contrast Python longs
have effectively unlimited significant digits.
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