Christian Taylor added the comment:
I see what you mean. I originally thought that intermediate numbers not
being representable as floats was not the issue here, since for example
25.0/10.0 should give the exact result - despite issue 1869 clearly
mentioning the *multiplication* by powers of 10
New submission from Christian Taylor :
round(x, n) may unexpectedly round floats upwards to odd multiples of
10**(-n) if n is negative, depending on the system Python 3 is running
on. I think this is distinct from issue 1869.
Example:
>>> round(25.0, -1)
30.0
I used the following fu
Christian Taylor added the comment:
I'm using Arch Linux (32 bit) with kernel 2.6.25 and glibc 2.8 on a core
2 duo. The described behaviour occurs in a precompiled binary of Python
3.0, but also in versions I've compiled just now, which includes Python
3.0+ (release30-maint:67879)
New submission from Christian Taylor :
I've been playing around with the newly released Python 3.0, and I'm a
bit confused about the built-in round()-function. To sum it up in a
single example:
Python 3.0 (r30:67503, Dec 7 2008, 04:54:04)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
>>> round(
