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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	mark.dickinson
Date	2008-01-12.05:20:27
SpamBayes Score	0.18149133
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Message-id	<1200115229.68.0.232140016038.issue1811@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Division of two longs can produce results that are needlessly inaccurate: >>> from __future__ import division >>> 1040/1039 10.000000000000002 The correct result is, of course, 10.0, which is exactly representable as a float. The attached snippet of Python code shows that things don't have to be this way.

Division of two longs can produce results that are needlessly 
inaccurate:

>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 10**40/10**39
10.000000000000002

The correct result is, of course, 10.0, which is exactly representable 
as a float.

The attached snippet of Python code shows that things don't have to be 
this way.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-12 05:20:29	mark.dickinson	set	spambayes_score: 0.181491 -> 0.18149133 recipients: + mark.dickinson
2008-01-12 05:20:29	mark.dickinson	set	spambayes_score: 0.181491 -> 0.181491 messageid: <1200115229.68.0.232140016038.issue1811@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2008-01-12 05:20:28	mark.dickinson	create