Re: [Tutor] Simple variable type question

[ALAN GAULD]

 

>>>>Or just 
>>>>     return float(y2-y1/x2-x1)
>>
>>
>Alan why are you suggesting this, surely this will cause the decimal values to 
>be truncated?  Or does this somehow work differently in Python 3? 
>

It would work different in v3 because / is no longer interger division.
However, I just misplaced the ) It should have been after y1.

return float(x1-y1)/(x2-y2)

Sorry about that.

Alan G.

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