newb: Python Floating Point

[Robert Kern]

johnny wrote:
> When I do the following, rounding to 2 decimal places doesn't seem to
> work.  I should get 0.99 :
> 
>>>> a =0.99
>>>> a
> 0.98999999999999999
>>>> round(a,2)
> 0.98999999999999999

http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html

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Robert Kern

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