More Math

There are lots of ways we can combine numbers or modify them.

>>> count = 5.0
>>> count * 3
15.0
>>> count / 3
1.6666666666666667
>>> count ** 2 # exponentiation
25.0
>>> count ** .5
2.23606797749979
>>> count % 3 # remainder
2.0
>>> count // 3 # quotient
1.0
>>> count * 3 + 2
17.0
>>> count * (3 + 2) # parenthesis group
25.0
>>> count / count
1.0
>>> count ** count
3125.0

Exercise

• Play with numbers, see if you can find an expression that crashes the interpreter

Extra Exercise

• There are more operators we haven’t seen here.

• See if you can figure out what these operators do.

• Hint: they work on the internal representation of numbers within the computer.

>>> 2 >> 1
1
>>> 2 << 1
4
>>> 2 << 2
8
>>> 1 & 2
0
>>> 1 & 3
1
>>> 1 ^ 2
3
>>> ~1
-2
>>> 1|2
3