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Re:Python rounds float values by converting them to string a... by chronolitus on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:50AM (#20820972)
your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...

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