Simple addition

[Rod Haper]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Dan Bishop wrote:
> 
>>Why not display the *exact* decimal representation,
>>"0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625"?
> 
> 
> This has my vote.  Unfortunately Python seems incapable of figuring out all
> of those digits.
> 
> Python 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 
>>>>'%.64f' % 0.1
> 
> '0.1000000000000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
> 
> 

Python 2.3.3 seems to be able to do it on Red Hat Linux 9.0:

[rodh at rodh rodh]$ python
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Dec 20 2003, 17:47:13)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> '%.64f' % 0.1
'0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625000000000'
 >>>


Must be a M$ MSC problem.

-- 
Rod