Oh, thank you. I wasnt aware of it.
On Mar 22, 11:11 am, Mike Hansen <mhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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