On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Hugo Arts <hugo.yo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:10 AM, David Hutto <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I get this with yours and Evert's modification from mult to div, but >> if you're right, then the 10e18 the book states as a checker is a >> typo/error. >> > > Wait.. in your original e-mail you said the answer as given by the > book was 10**18,
It is 10**18, in the book, (no e)that was before Eike informed me it was not the same as 10e18. I stated this after you used e, and before Eike explained, so I was using 10e18 in the reply thinking of it as as 10**18. not 10e18 (which is of course 10 * 10**18). But > either way, I'd consider 5e18 a correct answer, since it's fairly > close to 1e18 (relatively anyway, it's still 5 times as big). At least > there is not an order of magnitude difference anymore. > > Hugo > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor