Ask HN: Why does print (0.1 and 0.1 and 0.1 == 0.3) evaluate to False in Python?

2 pointsAlexHerbert5y ago3 comments

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edrobap5y ago· 2 in thread

Explanation for this behaviour is explained here - https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html

Floating point isn't the issue. 'and' is a logical operator here. 0.1 and 0.1 is 0.1.

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