On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Rodrigo <rnpi...@uol.com.br> wrote:
> I would expect both results to be the same. Am I missing something?

This is due to the way floating point numbers are stored.  In particular,

sage: a = 6.62606896
sage: b = 66.2606896
sage: a.exact_rational() * 10 == b.exact_rational()
False

See http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html for more information.

--Mike

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