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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-27 13:28:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-10-27 13:28:11 (GMT) |
| commit | f1930b1e122642ae0bda47c9535e58aefceefe8a (patch) | |
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Merged revisions 69131,69140-69141,69155 via svnmerge from
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r69131 | andrew.kuchling | 2009-01-31 04:26:02 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
Text edits and markup fixes
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r69140 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 17:52:03 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
PyErr_BadInternalCall() raises a SystemError, not TypeError #5112
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r69141 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-31 21:01:48 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
fix indentation
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r69155 | david.goodger | 2009-01-31 23:53:46 +0100 (Sa, 31 Jan 2009) | 1 line
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index 6ff2160..29c7a66 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ 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) |