[PD] "wrong" floating point values in pyext

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> IEEE 754 floating point numbers aren't able to encode 0.2 ... pd's print
> is rounding to 6 digits, python doesn't round, though ...

Python rounds too, but computes with 64-bit floats, just like Ruby. You 
see that Python only printed 11 significant digits, but with 64-bit floats 
you can have as many as 15, so there's rounding going on here.

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