calculating system clock resolution

[Sybren Stuvel]

jUrner at arcor.de enlightened us with:
> Is it mentioned somewhere that print truncates floats ?

'print' prints str(time()). On the interactive prompt, you see
repr(time()). float.__str__ truncates. I don't know where it's
documented, but this is the reason why you see the truncation.

Sybren
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