float / rounding question

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Necmettin Begiter  <necmettin.begiter at gmail.com> wrote:
>25 February 2008 Monday 12:44:46 tarihinde helen.m.flynn at gmail.com =C5=9Fun=
>lar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=B1=C5=9Ft=C4=B1:
>> Of course the function above returns 53.600000000000001.
>>=20
>> How do I format it correctly?
>
>Use the round(number,digits) function:
>
>tf =3D round((9/5)*tc+32,1)

>>> 53.6
53.600000000000001
>>> round(53.6, 1)
53.600000000000001

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