Lecture02-syntax-3pp

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Unformatted text preview: r x+y 1 Introduction Comments x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. Subtraction x-y x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. Multiplication x*y x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. Division x/y x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. The result is always a ﬂoat. Floor Division x // y x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. The result is the ﬁrst integer less than or equal to the quotient. Remainder or Modulo x%y x and y must be ints. This is the remainder of dividing x by y . Exponentiation x ** y x and y may be ﬂoats or ints. This is the result of raising x to the y th power. Float Conversion ﬂoat(x) Converts the numeric value of x to a ﬂoat. Integer Conversion int(x) Converts the numeric value of x to an int. The decimal portion is truncated, not rounded. Absolute Value abs(x) Gives the absolute value of x. Round round(x) Rounds the ﬂoat, x , to the nearest whole number. The result type is always an int. Fig. 1.18 Numeric operations digits, like 83 for instance. Real numbers, called ﬂoat in Python, are written with a decimal point as in 83.0. This distinction affects how the numbers are stored in memory and what type of value you will get as a result of some operations. In Fig. 1.18 the type of the result is a ﬂoat if either operand is a ﬂoat unless noted otherwise in the table. Dividing the integer 83 by 2 yields 41.5 if it is written 81/2. However, if it is written 83//2 then the result is 41. This goes back to long division as we ﬁrst learned in elementary school. 83//2 is 41 with a remainder of 1. The result of ﬂoor division isn’t always an int. 83//2.0 yields 41.0 so be careful. While ﬂoor division returns an integer, it doesn’t necessarily return an int. We can insure a number is a ﬂoat or an integer by writing ﬂoat or int in front of the number. So, ﬂoat(83)//2 also yields 41.0. Likewise, int(83.0)//2 yields 41. There are inﬁnitely many real numbers but only a ﬁnite number of ﬂoats that can be represented by a computer. For instance, the number PI is approximately 3.14159. However, 26 Examples of how to use the arithmeAc operators Example of ﬂoor division Example of mod operator Example of 2 to the 3rd power Example of ﬁnding...
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