terry reedy twhvuyludeledu imri goldberg wrote message news47d8e3e07010509gmailcom experienced programmers know shouldnt compare floating point numbers general statement wrong mark gave examples please drop proposal reason int division change idea expressions involving integral values insofar possible value result regardless types used carry input output values hence 12 equal 1020 5 idea 1 1 10 10 give different answer goes principle 2x project number unification tjr _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 034940 0400 pythondev case floating point