Python can't divide??!?!

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Williams <dan at ithium.net> writes:

    Dan> That's just an example. Python cannot divide. Period. 

True, but that's not surprising.

  Possibility 1: You have discovered a math bug in a programming
    language used by tens of thousands of mathematicians, engineers,
    programmers and scientists from around the world for over a
    decade.

  Possibility 2: There is something you don't understand about
    floating point operations.

Search google groups for:

  floating point binary group:*python*

See especially the thread

 Python doesn't know how to do math?


JDH