Why the nonsense number appears?
Daniel Dittmar
daniel.dittmar at sap.corp
Mon Oct 31 04:36:23 EST 2005
Johnny Lee wrote:
>>>>print time1, time2
>
> 1130748744.461 1130748744.500
>
>>>>float(time2) - float(time1)
>
> 0.039000034332275391
>
>
> Why are there so many nonsense tails? thanks for your help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Problems_with_floating-point,
especially 'Rounding'. Or google for "gloating point precision" if you
need more details.
Daniel
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