On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Dick Moores wrote: > >>> print round(0.19965, 4) > 0.1997 > > (which rounds up to an odd number, 7)
Now that's weird. It should (I say) round to .1996; not because 6 is even and 7 is not[1], but because 0.19965 is actually closer to 0.1996 than to 0.1997: >>> 0.19965 0.19964999999999999 [1] The Python rounding rule is to round "away from zero," i.e., to round up for positive numbers and down (where "down" means "more negative") for negative numbers. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
