rounding errors?

[Erik Max Francis]

todd wrote:

> Now, I realize that this is really small errors.. Does anybody have an
> explanation why Python picks up or loses these?

It has to do with floating point, and nothing to do with Python.  Any
other language using floating point has the same rounding problems.

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