Internally, all floating points are represented as a binary fraction (effectively)

Interesting. To me, this makes no sense at all. Up to this point, I belived that a float point value such as 8.95 is stored as a plain integer like 895 along with an exponent which is -2. So, to turn that into the original number, you print "895" and then move the decimal point to the left by two spaces. But that's apparently not how it's done. But this would be the most logical way to encode a float number if you ask me.

Convert 8.95 to 8.9499999999999992894572642399 and store it like that. Who came up with this "standard" and WHY?????

In reply to Re^2: Behaviour of int() unexpected by harangzsolt33
in thread Behaviour of int() unexpected by ceade1000

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