Inexact representation cases (Re: Against PEP 240)

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:

> It turns out that the closest you can get in IEEE double is
> 
>     1.1 ~= 2476979795053773 / 2**51
> 
> which is, as a *decimal* number, *exactly*
> 
>     1.100000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625

How did you get these numbers?  I'm sure you posted the routine a week
or so back, but I can't dig it out of google.

I want to write a sys.displayhook that prints floats exactly, just for
extra geekiness value.

Cheers,
M.

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