hello,
why this happened on my python?
>>a=3.9
a
3.8999999999999999
I wanted 3.9 but got 3.89................
How to avoid it? thanks.
this is my python version:
>>sys.version
'2.3.4 (#1, Feb 6 2006, 10:38:46) \n[GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)]' 6  1966 
On Jan 18, 7:55 am, "J. Peng" <peng....@gmail.comwrote:
hello,
why this happened on my python?
>a=3.9
a
3.8999999999999999
I wanted 3.9 but got 3.89................
How to avoid it? thanks.
this is my python version:
>sys.version
'2.3.4 (#1, Feb 6 2006, 10:38:46) \n[GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)]'
>>3.9
3.8999999999999999
>>3.9 == 3.8999999999999999
True http://effbot.org/pyfaq/why-are-floa...inaccurate.htm
thanks all!
On Jan 18, 2008 3:49 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wl*****@ix.netcom.comwrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:55:17 +0800, "J. Peng" <pe******@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
why this happened on my python?
>>a=3.9
>>a
3.8999999999999999
I wanted 3.9 but got 3.89................
How to avoid it? thanks.
Avoid it? You don't... You alleviate the concern by understanding
that floating point is only precise if the value is a fraction of 2: 1,
0.5, 0.25, 0.125...
Computer Science recommends that one does NOT compare two floats for
equality -- instead one should compare the absolute value of the
difference of the two floats against some required epsilon (ie, how far
apart two floats can be and still be considered equal...
abs(f1 - f2) < 0.000001
for example)
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In article <sl***********************@localhost.localdomain >,
Bart Ogryczak <z-******@bart.w-wa.plwrote:
>On 2008-01-18, citizen J. Peng testified:
>hello,
why this happened on my python?
>>>>a=3.9
a
3.8999999999999999
>>>a = 3.9
print a
3.9
This has nothing to do with python.
Apparently you don't know the first thing about floating point
numbers. I suggest reading the wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia/wiki/floating_point
Groetjes Albert
>
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Albert van der Horst wrote:
In article <sl***********************@localhost.localdomain >,
Bart Ogryczak <z-******@bart.w-wa.plwrote:
>On 2008-01-18, citizen J. Peng testified:
>>hello,
why this happened on my python?
>a=3.9
>a
3.8999999999999999
a = 3.9
print a
3.9
This has nothing to do with python.
Apparently you don't know the first thing about floating point
numbers. I suggest reading the wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia/wiki/floating_point
Don't think you are the first person to make this mistake, by the way.
Despite Albert's tone suggesting that *everybody* knows about floating
point this is a very common issue among new programmers.
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On 2008-02-02, Steve Holden <st***@holdenweb.comwrote:
>Apparently you don't know the first thing about floating point
numbers. I suggest reading the wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia/wiki/floating_point
Don't think you are the first person to make this mistake, by the way.
Despite Albert's tone suggesting that *everybody* knows about floating
point this is a very common issue among new programmers.
And even among old programmers who've not used floating point
much.
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