On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jaroslav Dobrek <jaroslav.dob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > when I have Python subtract floating point numbers it yields weird > results. Example: > > 4822.40 - 4785.52 = 36.8799999999992 > > Why doesn't Python simply yield the correct result? It doesn't have a > problem with this: > > 482240 - 478552 = 3688 > > Can I tell Python in some way to do this differently?
Refer to this thread from 2 days ago: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-February/1288344.html Regards, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
