Floating point problem

[Aakash Jana]

I am running python 3.8 only but my issue is I need more zeroes after my
result.
I want 2/5 = 0.400000
But I am only getting 0.4

On Fri, 17 Apr 2020, 5:08 pm Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de wrote:

> Aakash Jana wrote:
>
> > I am calculating couple of ratios and according to the problem there must
> > be a 6 decimal precision. But when I print the result I only get one 0.
> > E.g:- 2 / 5 = 0.400000 but I am only getting 0.4
>
> Make sure that you are using Python 3, not Python 2 or use at least one
> float operand:
>
> # Python 3
> >>> 2/5
> 0.4
>
> # Python 2 and 3
> >>> 2.0 / 5
> 0.4
>
> You can get the old default behaviour with the // operator:
>
> # Python 3 (and Python 2)
> >>> 2//5
> 0
> >>> 7//2
> 3
>
> If for some reason you cannot switch to Python 3 you can add the line
>
> from __future__ import division
>
> at the top of your script or module. Then:
>
> $ python
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 13 2018, 12:45:42)
> [GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from __future__ import division
> >>> 2 / 5
> 0.4
>
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