Markus Stoll added the comment: thank you for fast reply
I see the point and do not want to argue about that (rounding is fine for me). I just think this behaviour makes the long() function pretty much useless. Regards, Markus Am 18.02.2008 um 13:25 schrieb Facundo Batista: > > Facundo Batista added the comment: > > In short: > >>>> long(100 * 146.95) > 14694L > > This is NOT a bug, but a behaviour of binary floating point: > >>>> 146.95 > 146.94999999999999 > > In binary you can not express this number exactly. > >>>> 146.95 * 100 > 14694.999999999998 > > When you long() that, you truncate the number, so it goes to 14694. > > Please address further discussion through python-list. > > Thanks! > > ---------- > nosy: +facundobatista > resolution: -> invalid > status: open -> closed > > __________________________________ > Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue2140> > __________________________________ __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2140> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
