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		laurencerowe on June 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How fast can we make interpreted Python? '''...almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 “double precision”.''' http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

MostAwesomeDude on June 26, 2013 [–]

Python as a language requires the float type to have at least double precision. This is sadly not documented explicitly, but the big four Python implementations all respect this.

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