Message 156480 - Python tracker

Message156480

Author	skrah
Recipients	Amaury.Forgeot.d'Arc, Arfrever, Jim.Jewett, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, casevh, ced, eric.smith, eric.snow, jjconti, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, skrah, vstinner
Date	2012-03-21.08:03:29
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In-reply-to	<1332247769.86.0.118560421518.issue7652@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> The best thing might be to use Emax=108-1 and Emin=-(108-1) throughout. > I don't think many applications depend on having Emax=109-1. If they do, > they'll have to use the 64-bit version. 106-1 would be another option. The advantage is that it's visually obvious that the default exponents have changed.

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> The best thing might be to use Emax=10**8-1 and Emin=-(10**8-1) throughout.
> I don't think many applications depend on having Emax=10**9-1. If they do,
> they'll have to use the 64-bit version.

10**6-1 would be another option. The advantage is that it's visually
obvious that the default exponents have changed.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-21 08:03:31	skrah	set	recipients: + skrah, lemburg, rhettinger, amaury.forgeotdarc, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner, casevh, eric.smith, benjamin.peterson, jjconti, Arfrever, ced, Amaury.Forgeot.d'Arc, eric.snow, Ramchandra Apte, Jim.Jewett
2012-03-21 08:03:30	skrah	link	issue7652 messages
2012-03-21 08:03:29	skrah	create