Message91020
| Author | mark.dickinson |
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| Recipients | christian.heimes, mark.dickinson, terry.reedy, tim.peters |
| Date | 2009-07-28.22:29:05 |
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| Message-id | <1248820146.74.0.139205839868.issue1811@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
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An example of a case that's almost 3.5 ulps out (Python 2.6): Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jul 8 2009, 09:56:31) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5490)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from __future__ import division >>> m = 295147931372582273023 >>> n = 295147932265116303360 >>> m/n 0.99999999697597697 The correctly rounded result would be the float given by 0.9999999969759773. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2009-07-28 22:29:07 | mark.dickinson | set | recipients: + mark.dickinson, tim.peters, terry.reedy, christian.heimes |
| 2009-07-28 22:29:06 | mark.dickinson | set | messageid: <1248820146.74.0.139205839868.issue1811@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2009-07-28 22:29:05 | mark.dickinson | link | issue1811 messages |
| 2009-07-28 22:29:05 | mark.dickinson | create | |