> try running this in python: > > print [39.95] > > the output i get is: > [39.950000000000003] > > what's up with that?
That's perfectly normal - some numbers aren't exactly expressible as binary floating points, just like 1/3 isn't expressible as a decimal floating point number. Here's a good link on floating point arithmetic: http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
