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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Fenn Ehk, mark.dickinson
Date 2020-06-20.18:00:07
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This isn't a bug in Python; it's a consequence of the what-you-see-is-not-what-you-get nature of binary floating-point.

The behaviour is explained in the tutorial, here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html
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2020-06-20 18:00:07mark.dickinsonsetrecipients: + mark.dickinson, Fenn Ehk
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