Integers and Floats

[Gerrit Holl]

Hello,

I know there is a difference between integers and floats, but I think the
following is a little strange:

18:07:48:3/499:gerrit at gerrit:~$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug  8 1999, 01:35:00)  [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> 131 / 4
32
>>> 4 * 32
128
>>> 131 / 4 * 4
128

I think the ouput of the first two statement is ok, but why can't python store
an integer and a float as the same thing? And is the conversion between an
integer and a float so big? Or are floats just slower? Do I have to do the
following:

>>> int(float(131) / 4 * 4)
131

Is that neccesary for this one?

regards,
Gerrit.
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