On Apr 8, 9:13 am, "Hutch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We now have a float result when two integers are divided in the same mannor > as 2.4 or 2.5. > I can handle that and use the Floor division but a simple question. > > Why in the world would you round down the last presented digit to a 6 > instead of just leaving it along as an 8. > For some reason rounding down for a float in Python does not seem correct. > > IDLE 3.0a4 > > >>> 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890/345 > > 3.5784576525317586e+46 > > >>> 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890//345 > > 35784576525317588087314367504383610663481839327 > ^ > ^| > 35784576525317586000000000000000000000000000000 == 3.5784576525317586e+46
This just has to do with the way floating point numbers are represented in memory. More information: http://docs.python.org/tut/node16.html Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
