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Author johngholman
Recipients johngholman, rhettinger
Date 2022-01-04.18:20:18
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Thanks - sorry to waste your time.

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 18:17, Raymond Hettinger <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> The two numbers you gave become the same when rounded to the limited
> internal precision used by floats.
>
> >>> 10000.12345678901234 == 10000.123456789011
> True
>
> When it comes to displaying the number, Python tries to show the shortest
> possible member of the equivalence class.
>
> ----------
> nosy: +rhettinger
> resolution:  -> not a bug
> stage:  -> resolved
> status: open -> closed
>
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