Steve Lindsay wrote:
I suspect it's related to this:
http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#id34
Thanks. Without having gone through all the links everyone posted, I
have come across this line in your/Tim's link:
"Again, this has nothing to do with Python, but with the way the
underlying C platform handles floating point numbers, and ultimately
with the inaccuracy you'll always have when writing down numbers as a
string of a fixed number of digits."
However I'm pretty sure C applications do not handle floats the same
way. This still gives me a 'normal' response:
int main() {
float a = 8.0, b = 0.45, res;
res = a + b;
printf("%f\n", res);
return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
So my new question is, why doesn't C handle floats the same way?
Carlo
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