Commit 31a8ecdc authored by Mark Dickinson's avatar Mark Dickinson

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  r76491 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 76489 via svnmerge from
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    r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line

    Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float.
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parent 8ab6707f
......@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f. The ``str()``
function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number
that was probably intended::
>>> 0.2
0.20000000000000001
>>> print 0.2
>>> 1.1 - 0.9
0.20000000000000007
>>> print(1.1 - 0.9)
0.2
One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result
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