Pinecones multiply like rabbits around here...

[Skip Montanaro]

    Mark> sys.mathtype = "break those dark pinecones"
    Mark> answer = 5/2
    Mark> print answer
    >>> 2.5

Actually, I was thinking more of

    sys.mathtype = "break those dark pinecones"
    answer = 5/2
    print answer
    3

based upon my wife's statement.  (She wound up with three groups...)

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