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Hey now! That last result is a little strange. When you divide | Hey now! That last result is a little strange. When you divide number, even if the answer doesn't have a decimal place, you get an answer with a decimal point! What's going on here is that in Python (version 3, at least), division produces an what's called a <code>float</code> which essentially means a number with a decimal point. | ||
When the Python interpreter goes to do the division, it knows that (unlike multiplication for example) division can lead to numbers that aren't whole numbers (like <code>1/2</code>) so it means that the result will always include a decimal place. | |||
When the Python interpreter goes to do the division, it knows that (unlike multiplication for example) division can lead to numbers that aren't whole numbers (like <code>1/2</code>) so it | |||
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