floating point woes

[Westley Martínez]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 00:49 +0100, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while I usually cope with the woes of floating point issues, this is 
> one, that I didn't expect:
> 
> >>> round(2.385, 2)
> 2.3799999999999999
> 
> Doesn't the docs say, it's rounded up for this case?
> 
> <quote>
> Values are rounded to the closest multiple of 10 to the power minus n; 
> if two multiples are equally close, rounding is done away from 0
> </quote>
> 
> Well, that one is clearly rounding down.
> 
> What's up, eh, down here?
> 
> Pete
> 
> Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb  8 2011, 08:50:11) 
> [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
> 
It's actually rounding up, but 2.38 cannot be represented precisely by
floating points. This was fixed in Python 3.1.