On Oct 25, 5:44 pm, gershar wrote:
> I had some problems with some Python projects that gave variable
> results that I could not track down. Eventually and reluctantly I
> converted them to Java. Later, when I had more time I tried to analyze
> what the Python code was doing and found something st
On Oct 25, 4:25 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
> The binary float resulting from the conversion of .1 is slightly greater
> than .1, so this increases i by slightly more than .1
>
> > z = i * 10.0
>
> so z is increased be lightly more that 1
It should also be pointed out that Java in fact does the sam
On 10/25/2010 5:44 PM, gershar wrote:
I had some problems with some Python projects that gave variable
results that I could not track down. Eventually and reluctantly I
converted them to Java. Later, when I had more time I tried to analyze
what the Python code was doing and found something strang
On 2:59 PM, gershar wrote:
I had some problems with some Python projects that gave variable
results that I could not track down. Eventually and reluctantly I
converted them to Java. Later, when I had more time I tried to analyze
what the Python code was doing and found something strange. The
foll
On Oct 25, 3:44 pm, gershar wrote:
> It looks like a rounding problem but on the surface there is nothing
> to round. I am aware that there are rounding limitations with floating
> point arithmetic but the value passed to int() is always correct.
No, it isn't:
>>> for x in xrange(5):
... i +=
I had some problems with some Python projects that gave variable
results that I could not track down. Eventually and reluctantly I
converted them to Java. Later, when I had more time I tried to analyze
what the Python code was doing and found something strange. The
following snippet illustrates the
