Floating point errors?

[Erik Max Francis]

Ben Allfree wrote:

> int( (2.3 - 2) * 1000 ) = 299
> int( .3 * 1000 ) = 300
> 
> What am I missing? The first one seems too simple to expect a rounding
> error :)

Floating point values are not exact.

>>> 2.3 - 2.0
0.29999999999999982

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