On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 1, 4:42 pm, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: >> superpollo wrote: >> > how much is one half times one half? >> >> Uh, did you try it at the python prompt? If not, here's the answer: >> >> 0.1b * 0.1b = 0.01b >> >> Now all you need is to find the recent thread that converts >> binary floats to decimal floats ;-) >> >> -tkc > > I thought it was 0b0.1 * 0b0.1 == 0b0.01 > > Otherwise, you might get it confused with hexadecimal floats :D Well, my python says:
$ python -c "print 1/2 * 1/2" 0 But that's not what I learned in grade school. (Maybe I should upgrade to 3.1?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
