code not true?

[Robin Becker]

In article <8ds3ku$q0l$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, jeff_islay at my-deja.com writes
>Why does the second example return false?
>
>>>> print 7.0 == 7
>1
>>>> print (.07 * 100) == 7
>0
>
>
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.07 isn't exactly representable in your (probably IEEE) binary floating
point representation.

print .07*100 -7
8.8817841970012523e-016 
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Robin Becker