On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:17 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > ]That > > means that any representable number actually has to indicate a range > > of values centered on that value. > > That's not always true -- it depends on the source of the > information. For example, a reading of 5 seconds on a clock > with 1 second resolution actually represents a value between > 5 and 6 seconds. > > So if you're fussy about rounding, you might want to round > clock readings differently from measurements on a ruler.
True. I gave a number of assumptions, and if those assumptions don't hold, you may need to vary things. If you have something like you describe here, you probably want to round-to-zero or something. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
