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Author martin.panter
Recipients JULIE.MCMANUS, martin.panter, terry.reedy
Date 2017-09-06.11:39:14
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The floating-point numbers are only accurate to about 16 digits. You probably just found a value that cannot be exactly represented.

https://docs.python.org/3.3/faq/design.html#why-are-floating-point-calculations-so-inaccurate
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