This math scares me
John W. Baxter
jwbnews at scandaroon.com
Mon Mar 12 22:05:04 EST 2001
In article <3aad4485.2348499 at News.CIS.DFN.DE>, costas at springmail.com
wrote:
> Joking aside, this should be fixed to display the number correctly. If
> I use 'print 5.01+5.54" then it gives the result correctly. It seems
> to happen only if you type it in the command line without a print
> command.
Many of us feel that the present truthful display is correct, and the
former (before Python 2) display of 10.55 was wrong because it was a lie
(some don't feel quite *that* strongly about it but still prefer the new
form).
--John
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John W. Baxter Port Ludlow, WA USA jwbnews at scandaroon.com
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