Working with decimal points

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Byte wrote:
> That dosnt work either:
>
> sum = 0.1+1/4
> print sum
>
> Just returns 0.1

You get precedence right? Your equation does not evaluate from left to
right. 1/4 happens first, and since there are no floats you get 0.

in that equation you basically are doing this:

sum = 1/4
print sum
0

sum = 0.1 + sum
print sum
0.1