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Floating point (in)accuracy?

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grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

> I presume that on typical platforms, it can't be guaranteed
> that float(repr(x)) == x.

Why not? This is specifically one of the rationales for the change.

Regards,
Martin

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