7stud wrote: > On Feb 18, 7:57 pm, katie smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> in python im doing the problem 255/494 >> >> it keeps giving me 0 instead of .51.... >> what am i doing wrong? >> >> please help me I have been looking for hours >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> _________ >> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > An integer divided by an integer produces an integer. In computer > programming, that's called 'integer arithmetic', and any fractional > part of the result is chopped off(not rounded). If your arithmetic > involves at least one float, then you will get a float as an asnwer: > > > print 255/494 > print 255.0/494 > print (255 * 1.0)/494 > > --output:-- > 0 > 0.516194331984 > 0.516194331984
Not that this behavior is expected to change in the future, such that 255 / 494 will actually perform floating-point division. The way to achieve flooring division will be 255 // 494. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
