[Tutor] Division doesn't work

[Geoframer]

Or actually an even easier way is to just to divide bij a float and the end
result will also be a float.

So in your case divide bij 1024.0  ;-)

In [21]: s=14105

In [22]: s/1024.0
Out[22]: 13.7744140625

HTH - Geofram


On 1/18/07, Geoframer <geoframer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You assign s as an integer... it should be a float to get the right
> result...
>
> So either define s as
>
> s = 14105.0
>
> or as
>
> s = float(14105)
>
> it'll then result in the right answer :
>
> In [17]: s=14105.0
> In [18]: s/1024
> Out[18]: 13.7744140625
>
> In [19]: s = float(14105)
> In [20]: s/1024
> Out[20]: 13.7744140625
>
> HTH - Geofram
>
> On 1/18/07, Johan Geldenhuys <johan at accesstel.co.za> wrote:
>
> >  Hi all,
> >
> > In my script I want to convert 14105 bytes to kilobytes and and this is
> > what I do:
> >
> > >>> s = 14105
> > >>> print '%0.2f' % (s/1024)
> > 13.00
> >
> > This not correct and I don't know why. The answer is 13.77.
> >
> > Any pointers please that would help my in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Johan
> >
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