Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Despite the title, this is not one of the usual "Why can't Python do > maths?" "bug" reports. > > Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? If so, please reply with the version > of Python and your operating system. Printing sys.version will probably > do. <zip>
On Kubuntu 15.04, it works. Python 3.4.3 (default, Mar 26 2015, 22:03:40) [GCC 4.9.2] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> x = 1 - 1/2**53 >>> assert x == 0.9999999999999999 >>> for i in range(1, 1000000): ... if int(i*x) == i: ... print(i); break ... >>> A+ Laurent. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
