On SuSE 10.2/Xeon there seems to be a rounding bug for floating-point addition:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> python Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 25 2007, 16:14:04) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> a = 1e16-2. >>> a 9999999999999998.0 >>> a+0.999 # gives expected result 9999999999999998.0 >>> a+0.9999 # doesn't round correctly. 10000000000000000.0 The last result here should be 9999999999999998.0, not 10000000000000000.0. Is anyone else seeing this bug, or is it just a quirk of my system? Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
