Floating numbers

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Bradley Hintze
<bradley.h at aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Is there a way I can keep my floating point number as I typed it? For
> example, I want 34.52 to be 34.52 and NOT 34.5200000002.

<stuff repeating Gary's answer redacted>

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Representable_numbers.2C_conversion_and_rounding

Another option is to use the `decimal` module, which *can* exactly
represent decimal numbers (to a user-specified finite precision) and
is generally a bit more intuitive but /substantially/ slower:
http://docs.python.org/library/decimal.html

Cheers,
Chris
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