Strange behaviour with numbers in exponential notation

[Nobody]

On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 18:18:08 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> 1e26 denotes a *floating point number* Floating point has finite 
> precision, in CPython it is a 64bit IEEE number. The largest exact 
> integer there is 2**53 (~10^16), everything beyond cannot be accurately 
> represented.

Uh, that's wrong. All integers smaller than 2**53 can be represented
exactly. Some, but not all, of the integers above 2**53 can be represented
exactly.