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Author christian.heimes
Recipients christian.heimes, mark.dickinson, matanya.stroh
Date 2018-02-06.21:11:57
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Welcome to the astounding world of IEEE 754 floating point operations. Python's float type is based on C's 64bit double precision float. The value in _math.c is as precise as a double is able to contain:

>>> 0.6931471805599453094172321214581 == 0.693147180559945286227
True
>>> 0.6931471805599453094172321214581
0.6931471805599453
>>> 0.693147180559945286227
0.6931471805599453

Strictly speaking any of the numbers in your initial message are wrong. It's not possible to express ln2 is a number of finite length. The approximations are usually good enough, though.
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