John Machin wrote:
On Aug 27, 7:11 am, fred8865 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I understand that due to different arithmetic used in floating points
they are just approximations. Hence, 180/100=1 in my python interpreter.
It's not "hence". What you are seeing is truncating integer division.
How can I tackle this problem of inaccurate floating point numbers?
180 / 100
1
180 / 100.
1.8
180 / float(100)
1.8
from __future__ import division
180 / 100
1.8
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Or start using 3.0, which fixed this ;-)
>>> 180/100
1.8
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