Python can't divide??!?!

Ben Finney bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au
Fri Feb 6 16:35:48 EST 2004


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:44:55 -0000, Dan Williams wrote:
> Python cannot divide. Period.

Your binary computer can't accurately represent decimal fractions.
Python doesn't try to hide this from you.

    <http://www.python.org/doc/tut/node15.html>

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