Commit c4fbcdc4 authored by Mark Dickinson's avatar Mark Dickinson

Add note about surprising behaviour from round function.

parent 7410dd11
......@@ -972,6 +972,13 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
The return value is an integer if called with one argument, otherwise of the
same type as *x*.
.. note::
The behavior of :func:`round` for floats can be surprising: for example,
``round(2.675, 2)`` gives ``2.67`` instead of the expected ``2.68``.
This is not a bug: it's a result of the fact that most decimal fractions
can't be represented exactly as a float. See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for
more information.
.. function:: set([iterable])
:noindex:
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