On 2010-08-12, Bradley Hintze <bradle...@aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote: > Is there a way I can keep my floating point number as I typed it?
No. > For example, I want 34.52 to be 34.52 and NOT 34.5200000002. You can't represent 34.52 using base-2 IEEE floating point (the HW floating point format used by pretty much all modern computers). 34.5200000002 is as close as you can get. When you enter a base-10 floating-point number, the computer will use the closest base-2 IEEE floating point number. Here are the nitty-gritty details: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html Can you explain what your actual problem is? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm imagining a surfer at van filled with soy sauce! gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
