float_to_list question

[Pierpaolo BERNARDI]

On 30 Dec 2000, Mickael Remond wrote:

> I must be missing something but here is what I get from the float_to_list
> built-in function:
...
>  13> float_to_list(1.1).
>  "1.10000000000000008882e+00"
> 
> Oh Oh. I was expecting:
> "1.10000000000000000000e+00"

1.1 and 1.2 are not representable with the standard floating point
formats.  The strings you get are (hopefully) the decimal representations 
of the floats closest to 1.1 and 1.2.

P.