Is round() broken?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Joseph> So, what this is saying.. is that rounding to 1 decimal point
    Joseph> works... but anything beyond that is broken?

Nothing's broken.  Floating point representation is simply inexact.  Check
out the appendix on floating point arithmetic in the development version of
the Python tutorial:

    http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/tut/node14.html

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