Array and floating point

[Robert Kern]

Jonathan Shan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm experiencing a problem where the float being appended to the array
> is not the same as the result of the appending.
> 
>>>> from array import *
>>>> x = array('f')
>>>> x.append(float("0.1"))
>>>> x[0]
> 0.10000000149011612
>>>> float("0.1")
> 0.10000000000000001
> 
> I'm expecting x[0] = 0.10000000000000001

'f' denotes a single-precision floating point number. Python's float objects are
 double-precision floating point numbers. Use 'd' instead.

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Robert Kern

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 an underlying truth."
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