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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal

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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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Did nobody read the manual?

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

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