[issue39484] time_ns() and time() cannot be compared on windows

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> added the comment:

> The problem is that there is a double rounding in
>     time = float(time_ns) / 1e9
> 1. When convert time_ns to float.
> 2. When divide it by 1e9.

I'm pretty sure that in Python 3, if you say
   c = a / b
and a and b are both "single-digit" integers, it first converts them both into doubles and then performs the divide.  See long_true_divide() in Objects/longobject.c, starting (currently) at line 3938.

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