[Tutor] decimal precision

[Michael Connors]

On 25/03/2008, elis aeris <hunter92383 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> x = 53
> w = 192
> for a in range ( x, (x+192) ):
>     print (a-x)/w
>
>
> the problem is at (a-x)/w
>
> it's supposed to return a ratio between x and w, yet it 0 all the time.
>
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I think to do float division the operands should be floats.
So if you do:

print float(a-x) / float(w)

It should produce a floating point result.

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Michael Connors
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