Re: a print bug?

Summercoolness@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
it seems that the behavior of "print" is that it will round off
properly for any floating point imperfection, such as shown in the
first two samples. The third sample seems to be a bug? It doesn't
know how to handle the floating imperfection in this case.


1.2345

1.2344999999999999


print 1.2345

1.2345


print "%10.3f" % 1.2345 # seems like a bug ----------------------------------

1.234


print "%10.3f" % 1.23450001

1.235


print "%10.3f" % 1.2344

1.234


print "%10.3f" % 1.2346

1.235

>>> print "%25.22f" % 1.2345
1.2344999999999999000000

You obviously haven't yet passed your floating-point number proficiency test yet. Please restrict yourself to integers until you understand the difficulties that inaccuracies in floating-point can create ;-)

regards
Steve
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