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    Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float.
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@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f. The ``str()``
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