[Python-Dev] Expert floats

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Mar 30 12:29:16 EST 2004


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004, Edward Loper wrote:
>
> But I'm not particularly happy about the fact that you have to be an 
> expert to understand the intricacies of basic arithmetic with floats 
> (not that I have a way to fix it).

>>> 1.1
1.1000000000000001

Just a fact of life.  :-/
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