Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSPoint/NSMakePoint oddness

[Christopher S. <ch...@dn...>]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Daniel Ashbrook wrote:

> Is this expected behavior?
>
>>>> from Foundation import *
>>>> NSMakePoint(100000100, 0)
> <NSPoint x=100000096.0 y=0.0>
>
> Shouldn't I get out what I put in?

An NSPoint is 2 floats .
I'm guessing what we're seeing here is *rounding*.
That is that 100000096.0 is the closest single-precision floating  
point value to  100000100.