Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > FWIW, what you're seeing is related to "representation error" not "poor > precision". The numbers 2.3, 6.3, and 8.6 cannot be exactly represented > in binary floating point. When you think about it, this is no more > surprising than knowing the fractions 1/3 and 2/3 cannot be exactly > represented in either decimal or binary floating point.
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