On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 01:07:39 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Seymore4Head ><Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote: >> A little more: decimal_portion >> >> Write a function that takes two number parameters and returns a float >> that is the decimal portion of the result of dividing the first >> parameter by the second. (For example, if the parameters are 5 and 2, >> the result of 5/2 is 2.5, so the return value would be 0.5) >> >> http://imgur.com/a0Csi43 >> >> def decimal_portion(a,b): >> return float((b/a)-((b//a))) >> >> print (decimal_portion(5,2)) >> >> I get 0.4 and the answer is supposed to be 0.5. > >Work out exactly what your program is doing, step by step. Print out >the intermediate steps in the calculation, and compare what the >program's doing to what you expect to be happening. What's (b/a)? >What's (b//a)? What's (b/a)-((b//a))? > >ChrisA I did. I included a screenshot of me doing just that. The formula seems to work in the shell, but does not work as a function, or I am missing something subtle again. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
