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author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-02-06 02:40:07 (GMT) |
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committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2009-02-06 02:40:07 (GMT) |
commit | 5c6d7877c58cfe348b2a302d3bd924cd096a7ba2 (patch) | |
tree | 3b7da358e8e54b759838afd43ddcf4c1a80bc2d7 /Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | |
parent | 407c75735fb71cc15272c1cad559f336d3518501 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 69129-69131,69139-69140,69143,69154-69159,69169,69288-69289,69293,69297-69301,69348 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
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r69129 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-30 19:42:55 -0600 (Fri, 30 Jan 2009) | 1 line
check the errno in bad fd cases
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r69130 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-30 20:50:09 -0600 (Fri, 30 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Add a section
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r69131 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-30 21:26:02 -0600 (Fri, 30 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Text edits and markup fixes
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r69139 | mark.dickinson | 2009-01-31 10:44:04 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Add an extra test for long <-> float hash equivalence.
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r69140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 10:52:03 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
PyErr_BadInternalCall() raises a SystemError, not TypeError #5112
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r69143 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 15:00:10 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
I believe the intention here was to avoid a global lookup
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r69154 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 16:33:02 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
fix indentation in comment
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r69155 | david.goodger | 2009-01-31 16:53:46 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
markup fix
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r69156 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-01-31 16:57:30 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 4 lines
- Issue #5104: The socket module now raises OverflowError when 16-bit port and
protocol numbers are supplied outside the allowed 0-65536 range on bind()
and getservbyport().
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r69157 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 17:43:25 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
add explanatory comment
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r69158 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 17:54:38 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
more flags which only work for function blocks
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r69159 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-01-31 18:16:01 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 2 lines
Update doc wording as suggested in issue4903.
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r69169 | guilherme.polo | 2009-01-31 20:56:16 -0600 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009) | 3 lines
Restore Tkinter.Tk._loadtk so this test doesn't fail for problems
related to ttk.
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r69288 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 04:30:57 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#5153: fix typo in example.
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r69289 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 04:37:07 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#5144: document that PySys_SetArgv prepends the script directory (or the empty string) to sys.path.
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r69293 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 04:59:28 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#5059: fix example.
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r69297 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 05:32:18 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#5015: document PythonHome API functions.
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r69298 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 05:33:21 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#4827: fix callback example.
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r69299 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 05:35:28 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#4820: use correct module for ctypes.util.
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r69300 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 05:38:23 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#4563: disable alpha and roman lists, fixes wrong formatting of contributor list.
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r69301 | georg.brandl | 2009-02-05 05:40:35 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
#5031: fix Thread.daemon property docs.
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r69348 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-02-05 19:47:31 -0600 (Thu, 05 Feb 2009) | 1 line
fix download link
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index a38a53e..f41be3a 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ Why is that? 1/10 is not exactly representable as a binary fraction. Almost all machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision". 754 doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to -convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2\*\**N* where *J* is +convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2**\ *N* where *J* is an integer containing exactly 53 bits. Rewriting :: 1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N) |