On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:34:46 -0500, Tim Chase wrote: >> Tim, I'm sure you know the answer to this, but for the benefit of the >> Original Poster, the problem is that you need to promote *both* >> divisions to floating point. Otherwise one of them will give int 0, >> which gives 0.0 when multiplied by 0.5. >> >>>>> 1.0/2 * 1/2.0 >> 0.25 > > You can get away with just promoting one of them...you just have to > promote the _correct_ one
Doh! Of course you do. I knew that! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
