On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 7:49:34 PM UTC-4, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > Hi, > > while I usually cope with the woes of floating point issues, this is > one, that I didn't expect: > > >>> round(2.385, 2) > 2.3799999999999999 > > Doesn't the docs say, it's rounded up for this case?
The problem is probably that 2.385 can not be represented as 2.385000000000.... >>> a = 2.385 >>> a 2.3849999999999998 André > > <quote> > Values are rounded to the closest multiple of 10 to the power minus n; > if two multiples are equally close, rounding is done away from 0 > </quote> > > Well, that one is clearly rounding down. > > What's up, eh, down here? > > Pete > > Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Feb 8 2011, 08:50:11) > [GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
