>> Why isn't the last result "958949.99999999996"? IOW, how'd I get
>> back the lost bits?
Dan> You were just lucky.
Thanks for the response (and to Tim as well).
Dan> The floating-point representation of 95.895 is exactly
Dan> 6748010722917089 * 2**-46.
I seem to recall seeing some way to extract/calculate fp representation from
Python but can't find it now. I didn't see anything obvious in the
distribution.
Thx,
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