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I couldn't think of a better name. Please feel free to edit. On Python, I tried rounding the number 6.2 to 15 decimal places after seeing this thread and got: 

   round(6.2,15)
   => 6.2000000000000002

Great! Now I try the same thing for 1.2 and: 

   round(1.2,15)
   => 1.2

Huh? That's my only reaction.

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This is the string format:

"{:.15f}".format(1.2)

Maybe next article can help:

Floating Point Arithmetic: Issues and Limitations http://docs.python.org/3.3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html

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