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Author skip.montanaro
Recipients Retro, eric.araujo, skip.montanaro
Date 2010-10-14.17:03:28
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Retro> I didn't thought about the fact that binary floating point is so
    Retro> imprecise and can cause the round() to "error" in some
    Retro> situations.

Details on the limitations of floating point arithmetic are here:

    http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

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