Python doesn't know how to do math?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Chris Spencer [mailto:clspence at one.net] 
> 
> 	I tested this using the Python command interpreter on a 
> Windows XP box
> running:
> Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] 
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> >>> float(5)/float(100)
> 0.050000000000000003
> >>> 5.0/100.0
> 0.050000000000000003
> 
> 	Okay, I might not be a math genius, but this is most 
> definately WRONG. What gives?  Anyone have insight into this 
> little "feature" of Python floating point operations?

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node14.html

Wrong-is-in-the-eye-of-the-representation'ly y'rs
-- bjorn