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svn+ssh://pythondev@www.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r76491 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:33:29 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 9 lines Merged revisions 76489 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76489 | mark.dickinson | 2009-11-24 14:27:02 +0000 (Tue, 24 Nov 2009) | 1 line Fix some documentation examples involving the repr of a float. ........ ................
diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ necessary to make ``eval(repr(f)) == f`` true for any float f.  The ``str()``
 function prints fewer digits and this often results in the more sensible number
 that was probably intended::
 
-   >>> 0.2
-   0.20000000000000001
-   >>> print 0.2
+   >>> 1.1 - 0.9
+   0.20000000000000007
+   >>> print(1.1 - 0.9)
    0.2
 
 One of the consequences of this is that it is error-prone to compare the result
