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remove .0 - oli_action - Sep-29-2020
Hey everyone. I've written this code. It all works fine except the answer always has a .0 . The answer is correct, but is there a way to get rid of the .0? Thanks
number_1 = 1
number_2 = 1
enter = int(input('Please enter first number: '))
value = enter
while value > 0:
number_1 = number_1 * value
value = value - 1
print('Intermediate result 1:', number_1)
enter_2 = int(input('Please enter second number: '))
sub = enter - enter_2
value = sub
while value > 0:
number_2 = number_2 * value
value = value - 1
print('Intermediate result 2:', number_2)
print('The Answer is:', number_1 / number_2) Output:The Answer is: 120.0RE: remove .0 - scidam - Sep-29-2020
You can convert the result to integer data type,
int(number_1 / number_2). Also, you can just use integer division, e.g. number_1 // number_ 2.
RE: remove .0 - oli_action - Sep-29-2020
Hello scidam. Thanks for the quick reply. Both are cool. Would you recommend to do this though or is it just a matter of preference?
RE: remove .0 - perfringo - Sep-29-2020
I suggest to learn concept of datatypes.
There are built in numeric datatypes: int, float and complex. So using int() to 'remove .0' is not removing at all but converting.
Beware of this expected behaviour while converting:
>>> int(5.9) # for floating point numbers truncates towards zero; this is not rounding 5
// (floor division) behaviour:
>>> 5 // 2 2 >>> 4 // 2 2So if there is any chance that you may end up with not integer value as a result of division you will not get correct result with both int() and //.
...and I don't want to open Pandora's box of floating point representation precision in binary