On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:34:58PM +0000, costas at springmail.com wrote: > Ok, I can see maybe division having problems. But why does addition of > the two numbers below: > > 5.01+5.54 > > give me this? > > 10.550000000000001 It's called 'Round-off error'. ---William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Linux/Python, 8 CPUs.