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r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index 94afaff..c5af2fd 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
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@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@
function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number
that was probably intended::
- >>> 0.2
- 0.20000000000000001
- >>> print 0.2
+ >>> 1.1 - 0.9
+ 0.20000000000000007
+ >>> print(1.1 - 0.9)
0.2
One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result