Bug in floating point multiplication

[Michael Poeltl]

hi Steven,

I'm running python-3.4.2 on a linuxmint16 box and CANNOT reproduce
it is just that
int(i*x) == i
is never True!

hope that helps
regards
Michael

* Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> [2015-07-02 16:56]:
> Despite the title, this is not one of the usual "Why can't Python do
> maths?" "bug" reports.
> 
> Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? If so, please reply with the version of
> Python and your operating system. Printing sys.version will probably do.
> 
> 
> x = 1 - 1/2**53
> assert x == 0.9999999999999999
> for i in range(1, 1000000):
>     if int(i*x) == i:
>         print(i); break
> 
> 
> Using Jython and IronPython, the loop runs to completion. That is the
> correct behaviour, or so I am lead to believe. Using Python 2.6, 2.7 and
> 3.3 on Centos and Debian, it prints 2049 and breaks. That should not
> happen. If you can reproduce that (for any value of i, not necessarily
> 2049), please reply.
> 
> See also http://bugs.python.org/issue24546 for more details.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven
> 
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