time.time wont return a useable number

[buran]

he original code was copied from my current state but the code below is basically what i had to begin with, but threw the same error as above.

please, post runnable snippet that reproduce the error (in python tags) as well as the full traceback you get in error tags. In the new code you don't have multiplication, so it's not possible to have the same error from the above code