Decimal Places Incorrect

[Robert Kern]

Tom Haddon wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> When I run:
> 
> print "%0.2f" % ((16160698368/1024/1024/1024),)
> 
> I get 15.00
> 
> I should be getting 15.05. Can anyone tell me why I'm not?

Integer division does not yield floats.

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesnumeric.html

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