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[–] nous@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

The lesson here is that floating point numbers are not exact and that you should never do a straight comparison with them. Instead check to see if they are within some small tolerance of each other. In python that is done with math.isclose(0.1 + 0.2, 0.3).