In message <mailman.525.1242941777.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Welcome to IEEE 754 floating point land! :) It used to be worse in the days before IEEE 754 became widespread. Anybody remember a certain Prof William Kahan from Berkeley, and the foreword he wrote to the Apple Numerics Manual, 2nd Edition, published in 1988? It's such a classic piece that I think it should be posted somewhere... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list