Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Thu Jun 24 13:03:06 EDT 2010

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ilovesss2004 wrote:

> If I run
> 1.0/10**10
> python will return 0
> 
> How can I make python return 1e-10?

If you meant 1/10**10, by default this returns an integer in Python 2.x.
With "from __future__ import division" you can opt for the division of 
integers to return a float:

>>> 1/10**10
0
>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 1/10**10
1e-10

Python 3.x will return a float by default.

Peter

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