On 2017-09-19, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> writes: >>On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:59 AM, Stefan Ram <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >>>I don't get this. For example, the contractual payment (cost) is >>>47.21 >>>, the other party hands over >>>50.25 >>>. Now I am supposed to add /what/ to the cost? >>Start at the smallest end. You need to make 21 cents up to 25. So hand >>back four pennies. > > Yes, but to know this ("four") I have to do a /subtraction/: > > 25 - 21 = 4.
No, you don't. You start at "21" and hand out pennies while counting up to "25". -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I have read the at INSTRUCTIONS ... gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list