On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Baiju Muthukadan <ba...@muthukadan.net> wrote: > http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython > > Don't start a flame war now, please ;)
2.3 - 3.4 and 2/3.0 in Python, Ruby and Haskell interpreters. $ python3.0 Python 3.0.1 (r301:69597, Feb 14 2009, 19:03:52) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 2.3 - 3.4 -1.1000000000000001 >>> 2/3.0 0.66666666666666663 $ irb >> 2.3 - 3.4 => -1.1 >> 2/3.0 => 0.666666666666667 >> ^D $ ghci GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> 2.3 - 3.4 -1.1 Prelude> 2/3.0 0.6666666666666666 Prelude> Leaving GHCi. It looks like number of decimal digits printed are 17 in Python, 16 in Haskell and 15 in Ruby. Is there any way to change that behavior in Python? Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
