[Tutor] The '45' bug in round()

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Wed Mar 21 00:58:59 CET 2007


At 02:43 PM 3/20/2007, Terry Carroll wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Dick Moores wrote:
>
> > So you're claiming there's a bug in round()?
>
>No.  I'm very reluctant to slap the "bug" label on behavior that strikes
>me as anomalous.  I've found a bug or two, but in most cases, it's far
>more likely to be working as designed, and the bug is in my perception!

Yeah, you're probably right. See this reply to me from the Tutor I 
respect the most, even if it might not seem so to him sometimes:
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2007-March/053359.html>

Dick




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