On 2009-05-21, 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! :)
Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you look, the messier it gets. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
