From 8a550f3149662b0a5eb448afd659c95afe42cd0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Dickinson Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:59:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 83224 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r83224 | mark.dickinson | 2010-07-29 14:56:56 +0100 (Thu, 29 Jul 2010) | 1 line Fix typo. ........ --- Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst index 02301837de9..c06568e39a2 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/floatingpoint.rst @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ approximated by ``3602879701896397 / 2 ** 55``. Since all of these decimal values share the same approximation, any one of them could be displayed while still preserving the invariant ``eval(repr(x)) == x``. -Historically, the Python prompt and built-in :func:`repr` function would chose +Historically, the Python prompt and built-in :func:`repr` function would choose the one with 17 significant digits, ``0.10000000000000001``. Starting with Python 3.1, Python (on most systems) is now able to choose the shortest of these and simply display ``0.1``.