Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:46:03 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >Seymore4Head 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 fir

Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Seymore4Head 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

Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 01:24:40 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Seymore4Head > wrote: >> 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. > >Ah, I

Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Seymore4Head wrote: > 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. Ah, I don't generally click screenshots. Have the function print out e

Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Seymore4Head
On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 01:07:39 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Seymore4Head > wrote: >> A little more: decimal_portion >> >> Write a function that takes two number parameters and returns a float >> that is the decimal portion of th

Re: A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Seymore4Head 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 paramet

A little more: decimal_portion

2014-10-04 Thread Seymore4Head
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