My Python is failing math.

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 11/01/05 Kent Frazier said:

> OK, this is really strange.  I am using Hoary updated daily and Python
> 2.4-0ubuntu4.  I like to use Python as a nice and powerful calculator
> sometimes, but for some reason, my Python is getting the wrong answers
> for equations involving decimals.  It seems to behave consistently
> with itself, but the answers it is giving are blatantly wrong.  I have
> included a snippet below as an example of its craziness.

http://python.fyxm.net/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate

Mike

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