On 08/28/2018 07:11 AM, Frank Millman wrote:
Hi all
I know about this gotcha -
x = 1.1 + 2.2
x
3.3000000000000003
According to the docs, the reason is that "numbers like 1.1 and 2.2 do
not have exact representations in binary floating point."
So when I do this -
y = 3.3
y
3.3
what exactly is happening? What is 'y' at this point?
Or if I do this -
z = (1.1 + 2.2) * 10 / 10
z
3.3
What makes it different from the first example?
Thanks
Frank Millman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
Python uses what the C folks call doubles, and what IEEE calls a
binary64. If you look down at the precision chart, you'll see that for
a value V, you have precision limits on the order of (V * 1e-16). If
you strip off the 3.3 that you wanted from the result that you got, your
error there is 3e-16, and all that's rounded for display, so all you can
really talk about is order of magnitude.
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