Python can't divide??!?!

[Gerrit]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Dan Williams, surprised by float division]
> 
> It's what your hardware does; Python doesn't try to hide it from you; more
> here (this is Appendix B in the Python Tutorial that came with Python):
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node15.html

I think what confuses people is that the simple reprentation in the
interactive shell calls repr(), not str(). If it would, like Ruby, it
would be even more confusing:

19:22:38:0:gerrit at optiplex:~$ irb
irb(main):003:0> v=0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1+0.1
=> 1
irb(main):004:0> v
=> 1
irb(main):005:0> v==1
=> false

Gerrit (not a Rubyist, so I don't know if it's possible to get the 'true' internal value).

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