Dear Tutors, Reading through Wesley's delightful Core Python Programming, I came across something I have not been able to grasp yet. Some introductory code:
>>> 1 1 >>> 1.1 1.1000000000000001 >>> print 1 1 >>> print 1.1 1.1 The second case is, of course, what is throwing me. By having a decimal point, "1.1" is a float type, and apparently it cannot be represented by binary floating point numbers accurately. I must admit that I do not understand why this is the case. Would anyone be able to enlighten me? -Sam _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
