[Pythonmac-SIG] round() not consistent?

[israel at uandmedance.com]

hello everyone..

I've been playing around with generating some random numbers with 
random.random and then rounding them off to two decimal points with 
round() but for some reason this doesn't always work.

here is a sample session
'''
 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.65000000000000002

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.57999999999999996

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.5

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.63

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.95999999999999996

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.42999999999999999

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.10000000000000001

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.54000000000000004

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.81999999999999995

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.87

 >>> round(random.random(),2)
0.56999999999999995
'''

Am I just not understanding how things work here?


~Israel~
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