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Re: Help me with this code

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On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:51:00 -0800 (PST), chovdary@gmail.com wrote:
>         result  +=  ((-1) ** (k+1))/2*k-1

One of two things are happening here. Maybe both.

You're using Python 2.x (and should havesaid so) where integer 
division is truncated.

You're missing around some part of the intended denominator. Check 
operator precedence rules.

-- 
DaveA

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Help me with this code chovdary@gmail.com - 2013-11-05 17:51 -0800
  Representing fractions (was: Help me with this code) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-11-06 13:06 +1100
  Re: Help me with this code MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-11-06 02:37 +0000
  Re: Help me with this code Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-06 02:42 +0000
  Re: Help me with this code Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-05 23:44 -0600
  Re: Help me with this code Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-11-07 09:08 -0400

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