Eli5: What is a truncation problem?

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Hey, I’m learning Python and the book is talking about truncation problems when i creat float Numbers out of fractions or decimals. I know what it looks like but I don’t really understand what it means. Please help.

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In computing, truncated means “cut short”.

In the scenario your describe, changing from one data type to another could mean the number is truncated, I e. 3.24575432456 becomes 3.25.

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