On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen <h...@urpla.net> wrote: > Hi, > > while I usually cope with the woes of floating point issues, this is > one, that I didn't expect: > >>>> round(2.385, 2) > 2.3799999999999999 > > Doesn't the docs say, it's rounded up for this case? > > <quote> > Values are rounded to the closest multiple of 10 to the power minus n; > if two multiples are equally close, rounding is done away from 0 > </quote> > > Well, that one is clearly rounding down. > > What's up, eh, down here?
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 2.385 2.3849999999999998 Looks to me like it's working as expected... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
