[BangPypers] why is round() not working?

[Baiju M]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au-kbc.org> wrote:
> hi
>
>>>> round(2.1667000000000001,3)
> 2.1669999999999998

From: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

you may be tempted to use the round() function to chop it back to the
single digit you expect. But that makes no difference:

>>> round(0.1, 1)
0.10000000000000001

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Baiju M