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So, I was writing a program and testing it. After eliminating the truncation errors, I discovered that there is another type of error that happens for dividing 2 floats/rational in python.
(ml_optimization) C:\Users\victo>python
Python 3.7.7 (default, May 6 2020, 11:45:54) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32
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>>> 0.9/0.3
3.0
>>> 0.99/0.33
3.0
>>> 0.57/0.19
2.9999999999999996
>>> 0.63/0.21
3.0
>>> 0.75/0.25
3.0
>>> 0.66/0.22
3.0
>>> 0.54/0.18
3.0000000000000004
>>> 0.51/0.17
3.0
>>> import fractions as frac
>>> float(frac.Fraction(0.57)/frac.Fraction(0.19))
2.9999999999999996
>>>
In general, I want to know:
I want to know what is going on here? Why is it happening for division involving 3 in particular, but not all the cases? If this happens, how does it happen for IEEE 754 AND Python Rational?
For my project I want to know: How to detect this? How to correct this?
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Deadline: 31.12.2030
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