On 20 Nov, 06:01, srinivasan srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it works for most of the cases. But it doesn't for the following case: > > >>> str(abs(int(1234567.89)-1234567.89)) > > '0.889999999898'
Well, that is 0.89 or about as near to it as the calculation can represent. Like other numbers 0.89 evidently cannot be exactly represented as a float in binary. The nearest number above it is >>> 0.89 0.89000000000000001 >>> This is not a Python issue but a result of storing numbers in floating binary form. BTW, please post comments below existing ones rather than above them. It is more familiar on Usenet and, as a consequence, easier to read. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
