division bug?

[Milan]

a program:

a=10
b=5
print a/b

and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a sero (0),
but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

 

[Russell Blau]

a program:

a=10
b=5
print a/b

and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a sero (0),
but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

Python 2.3.3 (#51, Dec 18 2003, 20:22:39) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
5

What version are *you* running?

 

[Grant Edwards]

a program:

a=10
b=5
print a/b

and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a zero (0),

What answer do you want?

but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

Perhaps you can.
0.0

 

[Duncan Booth]

(e-mail address removed) (Milan) wrote in

a program:

a=10
b=5
print a/b

and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a sero (0),
but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

I don't know who can help you, but this is a Python newsgroup and if you
try your program in Python it prints 2, so perhaps you are using some other
language:
2

If you are using Python, try cutting and pasting the exact code and the
problem you think you see, and we can try to help you from there.

 

[Skip Montanaro]

Milan> a program:
Milan> a=10
Milan> b=5
Milan> print a/b

Milan> and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a sero
Milan> (0), but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

Works for me:

% python
Python 2.4a0 (#25, May 22 2004, 15:16:21)
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1493)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. 2

I think you'll need to give more details (platform, version, actual
interpreter output, etc) to get any more useful help.

Skip

 

[Steven Rumbalski]

a program:

a=10
b=5
print a/b

and its result: 0. If you run the program, you see always a sero (0),
but 10/5 is 2. Who can help me?

You probably have reversed a & b in your program somewhere. Zero is the
correct result with the numbers reversed.
a/b = 2
b/a = 0

If you import division from __future__ my guess is that you will see the
result of 0.5. If this is the case you have mixed a & b up somewhere.
a/b = 2.0
b/a = 0.5