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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index 6913c46..cb3009b 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) |