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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Robert.Withrow, TD22057, loewis, mark.dickinson, vstinner
Date 2011-03-17.08:05:29
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I don't think this needs to be documented beyond the limitations of floating-point that are already documented in the tutorial.  It's the obvious behaviour:  double to float (when packing) converts to the nearest float;  the float to double conversion is exact.
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