l_fp, time, calendar

[Daniel Poirot]

Look for the 'bignum' package:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/



On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 9:04 PM, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
>
> gem at rellim.com said:
>>> Isn't that as simple as convert a 64 bit integer to float and divide
>>> by 1<<32 to get the right scale?
>> Nope.  Loss of precision.  A double only has 52 bits of significant digits.
>> A float only 23.  To fully encode a 64 bit int you need a long double with
>> (usually) 80 significant bits.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Is there something I can say in python to get more precision?  How widely is
> it supported?
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