floating point math results question

[Steve Holden]

"Courageous" <jkraska at san.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> >The results should be 0.8 and that's it.
>
> First, this question is raised here often. Search http://www.dejanews.com
> for detailed discussion on the matter.
>
> Second, as an academic exercise, you may now attempt to represent the
> number 0.8 as a 32 bit binary value. Summarize and we'll review. :-)
>
Or, to save time, simply read

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

regards
 Steve
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