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Mayemene Fomene Jean Vladimir
Mayemene Fomene Jean Vladimir

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Floating Point Imprecision

What is Floating point imprecision?

These two expressions in python are suppose to produce the same result. But why don't they do that?

>>> 7 / 3 * 3
7.0

>>> 1 / 3 * 7 * 3
6.999999999999999
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When should you be careful about floating point imprecision?

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