[issue10101] a bug in built-in function round() ?

[Skip Montanaro]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> added the comment:

Retro> I didn't thought about the fact that binary floating point is so
    Retro> imprecise and can cause the round() to "error" in some
    Retro> situations.

Details on the limitations of floating point arithmetic are here:

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

Skip

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