Created on 2017-06-25 09:14 by René Podlogar, last changed 2017-06-25 09:44 by mark.dickinson. This issue is now closed.
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| msg296817 - (view) | Author: René Podlogar (René Podlogar) | Date: 2017-06-25 09:14 | |
My Python-Installations Python 2.7.12, Python 3.4.5 @linux64 and the CLI on the python.org-Website (interactive shell) affected: Python 3.6.0 (default, Jan 13 2017, 00:00:00) [GCC 4.8.4] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 1.83 - 1.52 0.31000000000000005 >>> Expected= 0.31 Verified in irc-channel #python.de |
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| msg296818 - (view) | Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) *  |
Date: 2017-06-25 09:44 | |
This is working as expected. Python's floats use the hardware-provided _binary_ floating-point format, which can't represent every finite decimal value exactly. I recommend reading https://docs.python.org/3.6/tutorial/floatingpoint.html for more information. |
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| 2017-06-25 09:44:13 | mark.dickinson | set | status: open -> closed nosy: + mark.dickinson messages: + msg296818 resolution: not a bug stage: resolved |
| 2017-06-25 09:14:37 | René Podlogar | create | |