[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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