"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Your calculator is probably doing rounding without you asking for > > it. > > > > Python refuses to guess what you want, and gives you the > > information available. > > I don't think Python should take too much credit here.
I don't understand what you could mean by this. Credit for "giv[ing] you the information available"? That's exactly what it's doing. > Floating point calcuations are subject to rounding. Sometimes it > shows. And Python is showing it, rather than hiding it. It certainly isn't doing any rounding unless asked to do so. -- \ Legionnaire: "We have their leader captive!" C泡r: "Is he | `\ bound?" Legionnaire: "Of his health I know not, sir." -- The | _o__) Goon Show, _The Histories Of Pliny The Elder_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
