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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	NathanFallet, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano
Date	2021-04-13.13:03:05
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Message-id	<1618318986.42.0.232621156464.issue43830@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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It is the same "gotcha" as >>> math.cos(math.pi/2) 6.123233995736766e-17 You can expect that cos(π/2) is exactly 0, but floating point value math.pi is only an approximation of the π number. The difference between math.pi and exact value of π leads to non-zero result of cos(math.pi/2).

It is the same "gotcha" as

>>> math.cos(math.pi/2)
6.123233995736766e-17

You can expect that cos(π/2) is exactly 0, but floating point value math.pi is only an approximation of the π number. The difference between math.pi and exact value of π leads to non-zero result of cos(math.pi/2).

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