Re: [Tutor] quick question

2012-09-27 Thread Dwight Hutto
> > That's a floating point error, not a round it off from the 3rd digit > in this case. More an error you have to calculate for from the macros of the languages python evolves from, down to the processor. -- Best Regards, David Hutto CEO: http://www.hitwebdevelopment.com _

Re: [Tutor] quick question

2012-09-27 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Brett Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:18 PM, jh wrote: >> The subtotal of your items is: 26010.8502 >> >> My question here is, why does my subtotal have so many decimals when I never >> went above 2 in my input? > > This is not actually a Python

Re: [Tutor] quick question

2012-09-27 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:18 AM, jh wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > I'm using Python 3.2.3, IDLE 3.2.3 (on Windows 7 64-bit if it matters) > > Here is my code: > > > # Write a program that asks for the prices of 5 items then displays the > subtotal > # of the 5 items, then calculates sales tax (6 percen

Re: [Tutor] quick question

2012-09-27 Thread Brett Ritter
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:18 PM, jh wrote: > The subtotal of your items is: 26010.8502 > > My question here is, why does my subtotal have so many decimals when I never > went above 2 in my input? This is not actually a Python thing, it's a computer thing. Computers represent numbers (ev

[Tutor] quick question

2012-09-27 Thread jh
Howdy Folks, I'm using Python 3.2.3, IDLE 3.2.3 (on Windows 7 64-bit if it matters) Here is my code: # Write a program that asks for the prices of 5 items then displays the subtotal # of the 5 items, then calculates sales tax (6 percent), and the displays the total. # Get input for the prices

Re: [Tutor] OT: Netiquette

2012-09-27 Thread Dwight Hutto
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Walter Prins wrote: > Dwight, > > On 26 September 2012 09:26, Dwight Hutto wrote: >> The only face I personally want to see of him >>> because of this is his back. >>> >> >> You wanna see my ass, because that's what you want homo. Butt just >> look, you can't tou