[issue19807] calculation of standard math returns incorrect value

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[issue19807] calculation of standard math returns incorrect value

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Sorry; this is just the way that (binary) floating-point works. See http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/floatingpoint.html for more (or Google 'binary floating point' for a host of references). If you're doing financial calculations, you may want to look into t

[issue19807] calculation of standard math returns incorrect value

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[issue19807] calculation of standard math

New submission from chili: Calculation of print (162-159.9) (IDLE and source script) returns 2.0943 I don´t make my financial calculation with this command :) -- components: Regular Expressions messages: 204561 nosy: chili, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett priority: normal severity: