[Python-Dev] Nondeterministic long-to-float coercion

[Facundo Batista]

2006/10/19, Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at ewtllc.com>:

> My colleague got an odd result today that is reproducible on his build
> of Python (RedHat's distribution of Py2.4.2) but not any other builds
> ...
> >>> set(-19400000000 * (1/100.0) for i in range(10000))
> set([-194000000.0, -193995904.0, -193994880.0])

I neither can reproduce it in my Ubuntu, but analyzing the problem...
what about this?:

d = {}
for i in range(10000):
  val = -19400000000 * (1/100.0)
  d[val] = d.get(val, 0) + 1

or

d = {}
for i in range(10000):
  val = -19400000000 * (1/100.0)
  d.setdefault(val, []).append(i)

I think that is interesting to know,,,

- if in these structures the problem still happens...
- how many values go for each key, and which values.

Regards,

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.    Facundo

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