Re: 2.6.1 - simple division

[Tim Chase]

farsi...@gmail.com wrote:

4 / 5.0

0.800000000000000004

0.8 * 5

4.0

Start here:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html


Play with these:

>>> 4/5.0
0.800000000000000004
>>> print 4/5.0
0.8
>>> print repr(4/5.0)
0.800000000000000004
>>> str(4/5.0)
'0.8'
>>> repr(4/5.0)
'0.80000000000000004'


And learn more here:

http://www.lahey.com/float.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point


-tkc


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