On Tue Nov 14, 2006 at 12:29:05 +1100, Carlo Sogono wrote: >Steve Lindsay wrote: >>I suspect it's related to this: >> >>http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#id34 > >Thanks. Without having gone through all the links everyone posted, I >have come across this line in your/Tim's link: > >"Again, this has nothing to do with Python, but with the way the >underlying C platform handles floating point numbers, and ultimately >with the inaccuracy you'll always have when writing down numbers as a >string of a fixed number of digits." > >However I'm pretty sure C applications do not handle floats the same >way. This still gives me a 'normal' response: > >int main() { > float a = 8.0, b = 0.45, res; > > res = a + b; > printf("%f\n", res); > > return (EXIT_SUCCESS); >} > >So my new question is, why doesn't C handle floats the same way?
Try print "%f" % (8.0 + 0.45) and compare to: >>> 8.0 + 0.45 Benno _______________________________________________ coders mailing list coders@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders
