Bugs item #919498, was opened at 2004-03-19 14:20 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by sjoerd You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=919498&group_id=5470

Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: Python 2.3

Priority: 5 Submitted By: GrASP (grasp81) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Math Division Problem?

Initial Comment: Using Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

A mere real division resulted in this:

2.3333333333333335

Mind the trailing '5'. Did I miss my University classes too much? ;)

Amazingly,

1.3333333333333333 - works OK.

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Comment By: Sjoerd Mullender (sjoerd) Date: 2004-03-19 15:23

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This is not a bug.

Binary floating point cannot represent decimal fractions exactly, so some rounding always occurs (even in Python 1.5.2).

What changed is that Python 2.0 shows more precision than before in certain circumstances (repr() and the interactive prompt).

You can use str() or print to get the old, rounded output:

Follow the link for more information:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.1/tut/node14.html

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