decimal
decimal — Decimal fixed point and floating point arithmetic
New in version 2.4.
The decimal module provides support for decimal floating point arithmetic. It offers several advantages over the float datatype:
- Decimal “is based on a floating-point model which was designed with people in mind, and necessarily has a paramount guiding principle – computers must provide an arithmetic that works in the same way as the arithmetic that people learn at school.” – excerpt from the decimal arithmetic specification.
- Decimal numbers can be re
