No the change of sign is due to a fake copy and past, My question was related to decimal calculation.
Thanks, Francois Liot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul McGuire Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 1:46 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Simple calculation error On Jan 4, 12:30 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francois Liot wrote: > > > I observed a strange calculation answer, on both python 2.3.4 and 2.4.4 > > >> >> print 753343.44 - 753361.89 > > > -18.4500000001 > > >> >> print ( (753361.89*100) - (753343.44*100) ) / 100 > > > 18.45 > > > Can somebody help me to play correctly with decimal values? > If the OP is questioning the change in sign, the operands are reversed in the second statement. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
