Re: off topic but please forgive me me and answer

[Tim Chase]

David Robinow wrote:
$ 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?)

That's because you need to promote one of them to a float so you 
get a floating-point result:

  >>> 1/2 * 1/2
  0
  >>> 1/2 * 1/2.0
  0.0

Oh...wait ;-)

-tkc



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