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Created on 2017-09-06 10:59 by JULIE.MCMANUS, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg301458 - (view) | Author: Julie (JULIE.MCMANUS) | Date: 2017-09-06 10:59 | |
Multipy 16.1 by 100 or 1000 returns a result to 13 decimal places. See example - >>> 16.2*1000 16200.0 >>> 16.1*1000 16100.000000000002 >>> 16.1*100 1610.0000000000002 >>> 16.1*10 161.0 >>> 16.2*1000 16200.0 |
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| msg301463 - (view) | Author: Martin Panter (martin.panter) *  |
Date: 2017-09-06 11:39 | |
The floating-point numbers are only accurate to about 16 digits. You probably just found a value that cannot be exactly represented. https://docs.python.org/3.3/faq/design.html#why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate |
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| msg301464 - (view) | Author: Julie (JULIE.MCMANUS) | Date: 2017-09-06 11:42 | |
Thank you Martin, makes sense now that I have read the documentation. Julie |
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| msg301483 - (view) | Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * |
Date: 2017-09-06 16:53 | |
Also, IDLE wraps Python and is not responsible for what Python calculates. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:58:52 | admin | set | github: 75546 |
| 2017-09-06 16:53:59 | terry.reedy | set | assignee: terry.reedy -> messages: + msg301483 |
| 2017-09-06 11:42:29 | JULIE.MCMANUS | set | messages: + msg301464 |
| 2017-09-06 11:39:15 | martin.panter | set | status: open -> closed nosy: + martin.panter messages: + msg301463 resolution: not a bug stage: resolved |
| 2017-09-06 10:59:13 | JULIE.MCMANUS | create | |