Bug in floating point multiplication

[Laurent Pointal]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 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.
<zip>

On Kubuntu 15.04, it works.

Python 3.4.3 (default, Mar 26 2015, 22:03:40) 
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
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>>> x = 1 - 1/2**53
>>> assert x == 0.9999999999999999
>>> for i in range(1, 1000000):
...     if int(i*x) == i:
...         print(i); break
... 
>>> 

A+
Laurent.