On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I don't think that a raise of 0.10000000000000001 (10%), > 0.035000000000000003 (3.5%) or 0.070000000000000007 (7%) is quite what > people intended. > > :-)
I also don't think it'll make any appreciable difference, especially if the actual salary is stored as an integer :-) > (Don't use binary floating point numbers for anything related to money. Just > don't.) While I generally agree, it's not quite as hard-and-fast as that. It's just important to know that binary floating point can't accurately represent many commonly-used real numbers... the same consideration that they always need. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
