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What is Decimal(0.70) in python?

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What is Decimal(0.70) in python?
posted Feb 8, 2015 by Gnanendra Reddy

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can not understand the question looks like you are looking for the decimal module in python.

The decimal module provides support for decimal floating point arithmetic. Python has a complete documentation on it please look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/decimal.html

If you are looking something different please comment :)
commented Feb 8, 2015 by Salil Agrawal

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