floating point in 2.0

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn9hpc2i.7o0.scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl>,
Remco Gerlich <scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl> wrote:
>
>The way they're stored hasn't changed, it's just that 2.0 doesn't lie
>anymore when writing the repr() of a float. This is how the floats are
>represented internally, there is no exact binary representation for any of
>them except 0.5.

Actually, 2.0 *still* lies:

>>> 0.1
0.10000000000000001
>>> '%.55f' % 0.1
'0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625'

It just lies less than it used to.
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