New submission from steve21 <steve872929...@yahoo.com.au>: I wish to round the float 697.04157958254996 to 10 decimal digits after the decimal point.
$ python3.0 Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Jun 7 2009, 14:51:41) [GCC 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 697.04157958254996 697.04157958254996 # python float can represent this number exactly >>> 697.04157958250000 # this is the expected result 697.04157958250005 # this is the closest python float representation >>> round(697.04157958254996, 10) 697.04157958259998 # error round() gives a result that is closer to 697.0415795826 than the expected result of 697.0415795825 - it has not rounded to the closest 10th decimal digit after the decimal point. (python 2.6.2 has the same problem) ---------- messages: 89029 nosy: steve21 severity: normal status: open title: round() error type: behavior versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6228> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
