On Mar 22, 3:03 am, Henryk Trappmann <bo198...@googlemail.com> wrote: > sage: a = float(1-2**(-50)) > sage: repr(a) > '0.99999999999999911' > sage: print(a) > 1.0 > > Is that intended?
This is Python's default behavior. repr uses 17 digits of precision while str only uses 12. It is covered in the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html --Mike --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
