Python can't divide??!?!

[Erik Max Francis]

Dan Williams wrote:

> Fire up python or whatever.
> 
> Do this:     Result:
> 
> 3 / 5        0                       Fair enough, int / int = int
> 3 / 5.0      0.59999999999999998     eh?
> 3.0 / 3      0.59999999999999998     ummmm...
> 3.0 / 5.0    0.59999999999999998     how did I guess...
> 
> That's just an example. Python cannot divide. Period.

Neither can C, C++, Java, Perl, or any of the other countless
programming languages which use floating point.

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