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authorMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-11-24 14:33:29 (GMT)
committerMark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>2009-11-24 14:33:29 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ 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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@@ -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