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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2009-07-29 17:07:21 (GMT)
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@@ -347,12 +347,15 @@ Decimal Floating Point Arithmetic
The :mod:`decimal` module offers a :class:`Decimal` datatype for decimal
floating point arithmetic. Compared to the built-in :class:`float`
-implementation of binary floating point, the new class is especially helpful for
-financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
-representation, control over precision, control over rounding to meet legal or
-regulatory requirements, tracking of significant decimal places, or for
-applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
-hand.
+implementation of binary floating point, the class is especially helpful for
+
+* financial applications and other uses which require exact decimal
+ representation,
+* control over precision,
+* control over rounding to meet legal or regulatory requirements,
+* tracking of significant decimal places, or
+* applications where the user expects the results to match calculations done by
+ hand.
For example, calculating a 5% tax on a 70 cent phone charge gives different
results in decimal floating point and binary floating point. The difference