On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Christophe Bal <[email protected]> wrote:
> The fact that I''ve focused in my first message is that in  asin(1/2)  the
> argument  1/2  is a float whereas in  1/2 + 7/3  it is seen has a fraction.

I don't understand --- for me 1/2 + 7/3 is a float as well:

In [1]: 1/2 + 7/3
Out[1]: 2.83333333333

Can you provide the full code?

Ondrej

>
> That shows a weakness of  asin  regarding to the addition. Don't you think
> the same ?
>
> Le 6 sept. 2013 18:26, "Sergey B Kirpichev" <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> > >1/2 is not an exact fraction.
>> >
>> > 0.5f does happen to be the exact fraction for 1/2.
>>
>> Yes.  1/2 = 0.5f (in python 2 we use "from __future__ import
>> division").  And no, 0.5f is not an exact number, it's a float.
>>
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