seanm...@gmail.com wrote:
The explaination in my introductory Python book is not very
satisfying, and I am hoping someone can explain the following to me:

4 / 5.0
0.80000000000000004

4 / 5.0 is 0.8. No more, no less. So what's up with that 4 at the end.
It bothers me.

Read http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

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