floating point math results question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <88bc63c6.0201250748.241385d2 at posting.google.com>,
Doug Farrell <writeson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>The results should be 0.8 and that's it. Where is the 00000000000004
>coming from? Is this just an artifact of the use of binary
>representation of floating point numbers or some artifact of printing
>a floating point number?

See http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node14.html
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