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Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 07:34:27 -0400
From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 05/03/2015 05:22 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> Op Sunday 3 May 2015 10:40 CEST schreef Ben Finney:
>
>> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>>
>>> When I have a value like 5.223701009526849e-05 in most cases I am
>>> not interested in all the digest after the dot.
>>
>> What type of value is it?
>
> If the absolute value is bigger as 0 and smaller as 1, it should be a
> float. ;-)
>

or for many uses, more likely a decimal.Decimal(), where many of the 
problems Ben mentions are moot.


-- 
DaveA