Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: An example of a case that's almost 3.5 ulps out (Python 2.6):
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jul 8 2009, 09:56:31) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from __future__ import division >>> m = 295147931372582273023 >>> n = 295147932265116303360 >>> m/n 0.99999999697597697 The correctly rounded result would be the float given by 0.9999999969759773. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1811> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
