2.6.1 - simple division

[Steve Holden]

farsight at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks all, that's very helpful, sorry to waste your time with a
> common question. I have tried the decimal module and will definitely
> keep using it if I need to do this kind of calculation again.
> 
> I have 1 more question that the floating point article that was linked
> didn't really answer:
> 
>  >>> x = 0.8
>  >>> x
>  0.800000000000004
>  >>> x * 5
>  4.0
> 
> Shouldn't I be expecting something like 4.0000000000002 ?

How different is 4.0?

regards
 Steve
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