22.800000 and a 1 on the end!!??

[Qwerty Maniac]

Like what others said, use the Decimal class to avoid this.

from decimal import Decimal
x=Decimal(5)
x/=2
x*=Decimal("11.4")
print x
# 28.50

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:28 AM, <notnorwegian at yahoo.se> wrote:

> >>> x = 5
> >>> x /= 2
> >>> x
> 2
> >>> x *=11.4
> >>> x
> 22.800000000000001
>
> ok where does the 1 in the come from?
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