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APeng Zhang commented on SPARK-46362:
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[~paridee] This is not a defect of Spark, it's related to the representation of
floating-point numbers.
More details
[here|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70404164/the-calculation-accuracy-of-floating-point-numbers-float-double-in-java-ieee].
> calculation error
> ------------------
>
> Key: SPARK-46362
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-46362
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Affects Versions: 3.4.1
> Reporter: Paride Casulli
> Priority: Major
>
> Hi,
> I had wrong values while using the POW function in SPARK SQL, please see this
> example (in this example I multiply (10^-2)*25051 and the expected result is
> 250.51
>
> from pyspark.sql.functions import lit
> df = spark.range(1)
> df.createOrReplaceTempView("TEST")
> spark.sql("SELECT POWER(10, -2)*25051 FROM TEST").show()
>
> but I got 250.51000000000002
>
>
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