floating point precission

[jburati]

BPO	884598

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title = 'floating point precission'
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[jburati]

I was just trying out Python when I noticed this,
I have checked but could not see any reference to this
bug:

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC 
v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information.
>>> tax = 5.0 / 100
>>> tax
0.050000000000000003

[quiver]

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Please see the tutorial.
There's a chapter on "Floating Point Arithmetic".
http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/tut/node15.html

This is a feature, not a bug.