newbie floating point question

[Alex]

Why does this happen ?

>>> .2
0.20000000000000001

Is this the correct behavior for the Python 2.2 interpreter ? (version info
is printed below )

Python 2.2 (#1, Jan 29 2002, 01:43:44)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] on linux2


Thanks,


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Alex Helder

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