[Python-Dev] (-1)**(1/2)==1? (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon Feb 20 16:19:45 CET 2006

Jonathan Barbero wrote:

Hello! My name is Jonathan, i´m new with Python.

I try this in the command line: >>> (-1)**(1/2) 1 This is wrong, i think it must throw an exception. What do you think?

1/2 0 (-1)**0 1

It's fine.

If you want to get a floating point result from dividing, make one of the two numbers a float:

1.0/2 0.5

Georg

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