Integer Division

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jun 19 12:01:52 EDT 2009


Anjanesh Lekshminarayanan wrote:
>>>> a = 1
>>>> b = 25
>>>> a / b
> 0
>>>> float(a) / b
> 0.040000000000000001
> 
>>>> from __future__ import division
>>>> a = 1
>>>> b = 25
>>>> a / b
> 0.040000000000000001
> 
> In what simple way can I get just 0.04 ?

Short answer: use 3.1:
 >>> 1//25
0
 >>> 1/25
0.04
;-)

But you should really try to understand the answers others gave.

tjr




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