"Chris Castillo" <ctc...@gmail.com> wrote
well i want to use a for loop to work from the right most digit to the
left
most digit at a negative 1 increment. For each digit i want to divide it
by
1/base and add the next digit. Then I need to take that sum and multiply
it
by 1/b to get the decimal equivalent
so when I say that to myself i see:
number = 234
mysum = 0
for digit in range(len(number) -1, -1, -1):
mysum = (mysum) * (1/base) + int(number[digit])
Lets walk that algorithm for base 10...
Loop 1 - mysum = 0 * 1/10 + 4 => 4
Loop 2 - mysum = 4 * 1/10 + 3 => 3.4
Loop 3 - mysum = 3.4 * 1/10 +2 => 2.34
That's not what you were looking for I suspect?
You still need the final division...
But I still think its easier to get the digits directly using
for digit in reversed(list('234')):
And the calculation then becomes:
mysum = mysum * (1/base) + int(digit)
But that gives the same result.
I think you want:
mysum = (mysum + int(digit))/base
So walking the loop gives
loop 1 - mysum = (0 + 4)/10 -> 0.4
loop 2 - mysum = (0.4 + 3)/10 -> 0.34
loop 3 - mysum = (0.34 + 2)/10 -> 0.234
However I still think converting to int and then dividing by base**len(n)
is easier.
mysum = int('234')/10**len('234') -> 234/1000 -> 0.234
Is there a particular reason for you using the looping algorithm
rather than the tools in Python?
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