Inverse confusion about floating point precision

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Why isn't the last result "958949.99999999996"?  IOW, how'd I get
    >> back the lost bits?

    Dan> You were just lucky.

Thanks for the response (and to Tim as well).

    Dan> The floating-point representation of 95.895 is exactly
    Dan> 6748010722917089 * 2**-46.

I seem to recall seeing some way to extract/calculate fp representation from
Python but can't find it now.  I didn't see anything obvious in the
distribution.

Thx,

Skip