Problem whit float precision, 1.6 Windows 98

[piet at cs.uu.nl]

>>>>> "Juan Huertas" <jhg at galdon.com> (JH) writes:

JH> Thank You, Remco.
JH> But there are other problems whit the precision, for example:

>>>> round(2020.685,2)
JH> 2020.6900000000001

JH> Acording the Python Documentation, round(v,n):

JH> Return the floating point value x rounded to "n digits after the decimal
JH> point"

Well, try what 2020.69 would output.
And then try round(2020.685,2)==2020.69
Floating point is very tricky.
This is the way it works; if you don't know it, don't use it.
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