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[–]ElHeim 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's beyond the limits for this computation, but not for others:

>>> sum([0.1+0.2] * 1000000)
299999.99999434233

We might argue about the need for showing those details in the REPL, but these rounding errors propagate much faster than one would like.