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Bill Tutt billtut at microsoft.com
Tue May 9 16:09:36 EDT 2000 
> From: 'Trent Mick' [mailto:trentm at activestate.com]
> 
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 01:00:13PM -0700, Bill Tutt wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > From: Trent Mick [mailto:trentm at activestate.com]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am not a big numerical analysis guy so I don't know about 
> > > changing PyFloat
> > > to be a long double. That is Guido's decision, although I 
> > > wouldn't bet on
> > > that changing.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > MSVC++ doesn't even support 80-bit "long double"s.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> Well that answers that then doesn't it. :)
> 

Yeah, royally sucks. All code that currently uses doubles really should be
using long doubles instead, it'd make their numerical calculations more
accurate.

Bill
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