subtraction of floating point numbers
Alain Ketterlin
alain at dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr
Fri Feb 24 03:49:15 EST 2012
Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dobrek at gmail.com> writes:
> when I have Python subtract floating point numbers it yields weird
> results. Example:
>
> 4822.40 - 4785.52 = 36.8799999999992
We've had this discussion here one or two days ago...
The usual answer is: please read "What Every Computer Scientist Should
Know About Floating Point Arithmetic", at:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.6768
and check the answers posted these last days. In brief: you're working
with floating point numbers, not reals (i.e., real "reals"). That's
life. Deal with it, or move to specialized packages, like decimal.
-- Alain.
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