[Tutor] float.is_integer()

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/10/2020 18:07, Manprit Singh wrote:

>>>> (23444444444444444.7777).is_integer()
> True

How weird. I get the same result and the documentation is so
sparse that it's of no real help.

Hopefully somebody else can shed some light on it.
Or maybe you've actually found a bug! But I suspect the answer
will lie in one of those odd binary level features of floats...
But too subtle for me!

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