Hello World, can someone please explain these results: print 100.0*1200/2450 is 48 print 1200/2450*100.0 gives 0 (zero ?!) Thanks, Georg -- Georg Hoermann, Ecosystem Research Center, Kiel University, Germany Tel. #49-431-880-4615, fx: -4083 Home: 0451/47 70 32, -33 fax, 0172/431 57 15 schorsch at ecology.uni-kiel.de