WORKING WITH NUMBERS

Python provides arithmetic operations for manipulating numbers a straightforward manner that is similar to other programming languages. The following examples involve arithmetic operations on integers:

>>> 2+2
4
>>> 4/3
1
>>> 3*8
24

The following example assigns numbers to two variables and computes their product:

>>> x = 4
>>> y = 7
>>> x * y
28

The following examples demonstrate arithmetic operations involving integers:

>>> 2+2
4
>>> 4/3
1
>>> 3*8
24

Notice that division (“/”) of two integers is actually truncation in which only the integer result is retained. The following example converts a floating point number into exponential form:

>>> fnum = 0.00012345689000007
>>> "%.14e"%fnum
'1.23456890000070e-04'

You can use the int() function and the float() function to convert strings to numbers:

word1 = "123"
word2 = &quot...