off topic but please forgive me me and answer

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 1 19:34:38 EDT 2010


On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, Tim Chase <python.l... at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> superpollo wrote:
> > how much is one half times one half?
>
> Uh, did you try it at the python prompt?  If not, here's the answer:
>
>   0.1b * 0.1b = 0.01b
>
> Now all you need is to find the recent thread that converts
> binary floats to decimal floats ;-)
>
> -tkc

I thought it was 0b0.1 * 0b0.1 == 0b0.01

Otherwise, you might get it confused with hexadecimal floats :D



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