Problem whit float precision, 1.6 Windows 98

[Dan Schmidt]

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

| Interactive windows:
| 
| >>> a=12020.685
| >>> a
| 12020.684999999999
| 
| This is a great problem for monetary treatment.
| 
| Please aid.

>>> "%.3f" % a
'12020.685'

If you need to work with exact numbers, you should internally multiply
everything by 1000 and use ints.  Floats can't represent numbers like
12020.685 exactly.

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