David Robinow wrote: > $ python -c "print 1/2 * 1/2" > 0 > > But that's not what I learned in grade school. > (Maybe I should upgrade to 3.1?) That's because you need to promote one of them to a float so you get a floating-point result: >>> 1/2 * 1/2 0 >>> 1/2 * 1/2.0 0.0 Oh...wait ;-) -tkc