At 02:24 PM 3/20/2007, Terry Carroll wrote: >On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Dick Moores wrote: > > > >>> print round(0.19965, 4) > > 0.1997 > > > > (which rounds up to an odd number, 7) > >Now that's weird. It should (I say) round to .1996; not because 6 is even >and 7 is not[1], but because 0.19965 is actually closer to 0.1996 than to >0.1997: > > >>> 0.19965 >0.19964999999999999 > > >[1] The Python rounding rule is to round "away from zero," i.e., to round >up for positive numbers and down (where "down" means "more negative") for >negative numbers.
So you're claiming there's a bug in round()? So was I, the OP, in that original post, but a bug of a different sort. ;) Dick Moores _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
