Bad Math

[Patrick Rutkowski]

I started reading a python book today, one example was:

>>> 4 / (2.0 + 3)
0.8

My input/output was:

>>> 4 (2.0 + 3)
0.80000000000000004

Something smells fishy here... whats up?

--python 2.4.1
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