[Tutor] list of floats, strange behavior

[Bernard Lebel]

Hi,

In the tutorial (I think) from the Python docs there is an explanation about
this problem, wich is inherent to floating point numbers in computers.
Very interesting read.


Cheers
Bernard

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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 8:35 AM
Subject: [Tutor] list of floats, strange behavior


>
> hi everybody, I was wondering if someone could help me understand why IDLE
> seems to expand the largest value in a series of floating points I decided
> to put in a list:
>
> >>> list01 = [.1028, .1248, .0998, .1101, .1062]
> >>> list01.sort()
> >>> list01
> [0.0998, 0.1028, 0.1062, 0.1101, 0.12479999999999999]
>
> I don't particularly want that value expanded like that.
>
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