[issue27094] Floating Point Printing Error with 2+.8553 or 3+.8553

2016-05-23 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html -- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue27094] Floating Point Printing Error with 2+.8553 or 3+.8553

2016-05-23 Thread Seth Norton
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[issue27094] Floating Point Printing Error with 2+.8553 or 3+.8553

2016-05-23 Thread Seth Norton
New submission from Seth Norton: In a basic command line interpreter, adding 2 or 3 to .8553 will cause the result to be displayed as if a rounding error occurred. The number is so small that I expect it is not a mathematical error but rather in how the number is printed. The displayed answer