## When 1 + 1 = 2.0000001
-Computers don't do floating point arithmetic too well. This can make simple tests for the equality of two floating point values problematic due to imprecision in the values being compared.
+Computers don't do floating point arithmetic too well. For example:
+
+ $ python
+ >>> tot = 0.0\r
+ >>> for i in range(1,100):\r
+ >>>... tot = tot + 0.01 # Expect answer to be 1.0\r
+ >>>...\r
+ >>> print tot\r
+ >>> 0.99\r
+
+This can make simple tests for the equality of two floating point values problematic due to imprecision in the values being compared.
$ python
>>> expected = 1 + 1