Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-05-21, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
seanm...@gmail.com schrieb:
The explaination in my introductory Python book is not very
satisfying, and I am hoping someone can explain the following to me:
4 / 5.0
0.80000000000000004
4 / 5.0 is 0.8. No more, no less. So what's up with that 4 at the end.
It bothers me.
Welcome to IEEE 754 floating point land! :)
Floating point is sort of like quantum physics: the closer you
look, the messier it gets.
I have the same feeling towards databases.
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