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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 (GMT) |
| commit | a63b30671dc4de326045f28940ab2a0b8828b757 (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 76489 via svnmerge from
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r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 94afaff..c5af2fd 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f. The ``str()`` function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number that was probably intended:: - >>> 0.2 - 0.20000000000000001 - >>> print 0.2 + >>> 1.1 - 0.9 + 0.20000000000000007 + >>> print(1.1 - 0.9) 0.2 One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result |