R. David Murray added the comment:
Read this:
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html?highlight=rounding
And then perhaps take a look at the Decimal package.
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New submission from James Sparenberg :
Python produces rounding errors when adding decimals.
ython 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
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>>> 13.04 + 158.00
171.03
>>> 13 +158
171
>>> 13.0
