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Title: floating point precission
Type: Stage:
Components: None Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: Nosy List: jburati, quiver
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2004-01-26 07:59 by jburati, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg19830 - (view) Author: Johan Burati (jburati) Date: 2004-01-26 07:59 
I was just trying out Python when I noticed this,
I have checked but could not see any reference to this 
bug:

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC 
v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> tax = 5.0 / 100
>>> tax
0.050000000000000003
msg19831 - (view) Author: George Yoshida (quiver) (Python committer) Date: 2004-01-26 09:06 
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user_id=671362

Please see the tutorial.
There's a chapter on "Floating Point Arithmetic".
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/tut/node15.html

This is a feature, not a bug.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:56:02adminsetgithub: 39870
2004-01-26 07:59:57jburaticreate