20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
2:19 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Tim Blechmann wrote:
IEEE 754 floating point numbers aren't able to encode 0.2 ... pd's print is rounding to 6 digits, python doesn't round, though ...
Python rounds too, but computes with 64-bit floats, just like Ruby. You see that Python only printed 11 significant digits, but with 64-bit floats you can have as many as 15, so there's rounding going on here.
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