Gary Herron <gher...@islandtraining.com> wrote: > (But try: > print 1.1*1.1 > and see that the print statement does hide the roundoff error from you.)
That varies according to the version of Python you are using. On my system: Python 2.7 (r27:82525, Jul 4 2010, 09:01:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print(1.1*1.1) 1.21 >>> ^Z C:\Python27>cd \python32 C:\Python32>python Python 3.2.1 (default, Jul 10 2011, 21:51:15) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> print(1.1*1.1) 1.2100000000000002 -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
