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24 fractions.  A consequence is that, in general, the decimal floating-point
25 numbers you enter are only approximated by the binary floating-point numbers
85 Note that this is in the very nature of binary floating-point: this is not a
87 kind of thing in all languages that support your hardware's floating-point
101 decimal string ``2.675`` is converted to a binary floating-point number, it's
128 Binary floating-point arithmetic holds many surprises like this.  The problem
134 wary of floating-point!  The errors in Python float operations are inherited
135 from the floating-point hardware, and on most machines are on the order of no
140 While pathological cases do exist, for most casual use of floating-point
154 binary floating-point representation is assumed.
165 fraction. Almost all machines today (July 2010) use IEEE-754 floating point