9 Scenarios Where Traditional Math Fails in Python

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Sep 20, 2024

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1. Floating-Point Precision Errors:

print(0.1 + 0.2)

0.30000000000000004

2. Division by Zero:

print(1 / 0)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZeroDivisionError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[1], line 1
----> 1 print(1 / 0)

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

3. Negative Numbers in math.sqrt():

import math
print(math.sqrt(-1))

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ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[4], line 2
      1 import math
----> 2 print(math.sqrt(-1))

ValueError: math domain error

4. Modulo of Negative Numbers:

print(-10 % 3)

2