puzzled about floats

[Neal Becker]

from math import modf

class nco (object):
def __init__ (self, delta):
self.delta = delta
self.phase = 0.0
def __call__ (self):
self.phase += self.delta
f,i = modf (self.phase)
print modf (self.phase)
if (self.phase 1.0):
self.phase -= 1.0
return self.phase

n = nco (0.1)
for x in xrange (100):
print '%.12f' % n()

prints out
[...]
(0.99999999999999978, 0.0) <<< from modf
1.000000000000 << from n()

I'm baffled as to why 'print modf (self.phase)' prints out the first value,
but the result printed in the 2nd case is different. Without any precision
spec on the first print, an approximate float value was printed, but even
with %.12f, the second gives exactly 1.000....

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:13:18 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:

from math import modf

class nco (object):
def __init__ (self, delta):
self.delta = delta
self.phase = 0.0
def __call__ (self):
self.phase += self.delta
f,i = modf (self.phase)
print modf (self.phase)
if (self.phase 1.0):
self.phase -= 1.0
return self.phase

n = nco (0.1)
for x in xrange (100):
print '%.12f' % n()

prints out
[...]
(0.99999999999999978, 0.0) <<< from modf
1.000000000000 << from n()

I'm baffled as to why 'print modf (self.phase)' prints out the first value,
but the result printed in the 2nd case is different. Without any precision
spec on the first print, an approximate float value was printed, but even
with %.12f, the second gives exactly 1.000....

Tuples are printed with calling `repr()` on the objects:

In [144]: str(0.1)
Out[144]: '0.1'

In [145]: repr(0.1)
Out[145]: '0.10000000000000001'

In [146]: '%.12f' % 0.1
Out[146]: '0.100000000000'

In [147]: '%.50f' % 0.1
Out[147]: '0.10000000000000000555111512312578270211815834045 410'

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch