off topic but please forgive me me and answer

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:34:46 -0500, Tim Chase wrote:

>> Tim, I'm sure you know the answer to this, but for the benefit of the
>> Original Poster, the problem is that you need to promote *both*
>> divisions to floating point. Otherwise one of them will give int 0,
>> which gives 0.0 when multiplied by 0.5.
>> 
>>>>> 1.0/2 * 1/2.0
>> 0.25
> 
> You can get away with just promoting one of them...you just have to
> promote the _correct_ one

Doh!

Of course you do. I knew that!



-- 
Steven