[Matrix-SIG] array([19990609],'f') bug?

[Robin Becker]

In article <A1AFC4253BA3D111BFF70001FA7E9AACD6215C@ewfd19.exchange.ml.co
m>, Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading) <HYoon@exchange.ml.com>
writes
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone explain this strange behavior?
>NT svcpack 3 running version 11 of NumPy
>>>> array([19990609],'f')
>       array([ 19990608.],'f')
>Anyone have a fix?
>
I don't think this is fixable. I think the number of decimal digits in a
float will be somewhere between 7 and 8.

ie 

>>> array([ 9990608.],'f')
array([ 9990608.],'f')

ie 7 digits is ok.
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Robin Becker