on floating-point numbers

[Peter Pearson]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 07:54:27 -0700 (PDT), Julio Di Egidio wrote:
> On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 16:51:24 UTC+2, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>> Am 02.09.21 um 16:49 schrieb Julio Di Egidio:
>> > On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 16:41:38 UTC+2, Peter Pearson wrote: 
>> >> On Thu, 02 Sep 2021 10:51:03 -0300, Hope Rouselle wrote: 
>> > 
>> >>> 39.60000000000001 
>> >> 
>> >> Welcome to the exciting world of roundoff error: 
>> > 
>> > Welcome to the exiting world of Usenet. 
>> > 
>> > *Plonk*
>> 
>> Pretty harsh, isn't it? He gave a concise example of the same inaccuracy 
>> right afterwards. 
>
> And I thought you were not seeing my posts...
>
> Given that I have already given a full explanation, you guys, that you
> realise it or not, are simply adding noise for the usual pub-level
> discussion I must most charitably guess.
>
> Anyway, just my opinion.  (EOD.)


Although we are in the world of Usenet, comp.lang.python is by
no means typical of Usenet.  This is a positive, helpful, welcoming
community in which "Plonk", "EOD", and "RTFM" (appearing in another
post) are seldom seen, and in which I have never before seen the
suggestion that everybody else should be silent so that the silver
voice of the chosen one can be heard.


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