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  Re: python math problem Kene Meniru <Kene.Meniru@illom.org> - 2013-02-15 15:23 -0500

#38959 — Re: python math problem

Joel Goldstick wrote:

> 
> This is not a string, it is scientific notion for 1.53... times 10 to the
> -15th power.  Because of rounding errors caused by doing floating point
> math on in binary, you get a very small number instead of 0.
> 

I was just doing some testing and it was not equating to zero. Perhaps if I 
rounded it up I may be more successful.

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