[Python-checkins] r69155 - python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst

david.goodger python-checkins at python.org
Sat Jan 31 23:53:47 CET 2009


Author: david.goodger
Date: Sat Jan 31 23:53:46 2009
New Revision: 69155

Log:
markup fix

Modified:
   python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst

Modified: python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst	Sat Jan 31 23:53:46 2009
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and
 almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision".  754
 doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to
-convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2\*\**N* where *J* is
+convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2**\ *N* where *J* is
 an integer containing exactly 53 bits.  Rewriting ::
 
    1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N)


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