Kaydet (Commit) a528dc50 authored tarafından David Goodger's avatar David Goodger

markup fix

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...@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Why is that? 1/10 is not exactly representable as a binary fraction. Almost all ...@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Why is that? 1/10 is not exactly representable as a binary fraction. Almost all
machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and
almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision". 754 almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 "double precision". 754
doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to doubles contain 53 bits of precision, so on input the computer strives to
convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2\*\**N* where *J* is convert 0.1 to the closest fraction it can of the form *J*/2**\ *N* where *J* is
an integer containing exactly 53 bits. Rewriting :: an integer containing exactly 53 bits. Rewriting ::
1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N) 1 / 10 ~= J / (2**N)
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