How Python Compares Floats and Ints: Why It Can Give Surprising Results
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Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
  • Eximius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Did nobody read the manual?

    IEEE 754 double precision: The 53-bit significand precision gives from 15 to 17 significant decimal digits precision.