Decimals not equalling themselves (e.g. 0.2 = 0.2000000001)

Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Aug 5 02:26:24 EDT 2008


En Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:57:10 -0300, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com>  
escribi�:

> On 2008-08-03, Larry Bates <larry.bates at websafe.com`> wrote:

>>
>> What are they teaching in computer science classes these days?
>
> When I was an undergrad the only courses that dealt with FP
> issues were classes on numerical analysis.  I don't even know
> if numerical analysis classes were required for CS majors.  I
> think most of us in that class were engineering majors.

And even if those topics were always covered in CS classes, a CS degree  
isn't required to program in Python - fortunately.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina




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