On May 21, 5:36 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > seanm...@gmail.com schrieb: > > > 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. > > Welcome to IEEE 754 floating point land! :) > > Christian
Thanks for the link and the welcome. Now onward to Bitwise Operations.... Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
