[ python-Bugs-884598 ] floating point precission

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Bugs item #884598, was opened at 2004-01-26 02:59
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Johan Burati (jburati)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: floating point precission

Initial Comment:
I was just trying out Python when I noticed this,
I have checked but could not see any reference to this 
bug:

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC 
v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> tax = 5.0 / 100
>>> tax
0.050000000000000003

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Comment By: George Yoshida (quiver)
Date: 2004-01-26 04:06

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Please see the tutorial.
There's a chapter on "Floating Point Arithmetic".
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/tut/node15.html

This is a feature, not a bug.

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