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Author vstinner
Recipients mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2015-09-16.07:52:05
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Message-id <1442389925.8.0.630408490886.issue25129@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"""
The root of the issue is that

>>> Fraction(78*6e-8) != Fraction(78*6, 10**8)
True
>>> Fraction(6e-8) != Fraction(6, 10**8)
True
"""

It's not an issue, it's just a fact: floating point rounding is annoying and very few people understand it :-)
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2015-09-16 07:52:05vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, tim.peters, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
2015-09-16 07:52:05vstinnersetmessageid: <1442389925.8.0.630408490886.issue25129@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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