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omri zakai
289 PointsConvert string to float
Hi all,
What wrong with my code ?
Q: Let's make sure we're always working with floats. Convert your arguments to floats before you add them together. You can do this with the float() function.
my wrong Answare:
def add (a, b):
return float(a + b)
5 Answers
omri zakai
289 PointsI also tried to convert them before:
def add float(a, b):
return (a + b)
or
def add (a, b):
f = float(a)
g = float(b)
return (f + g )
Alexander Kobilinsky
359 Points
Cubes School
Courses Plus Student 17,884 PointsIt says convert before you add them together, maybe you should first convert them and after add them?
Kevin Brennan
19,920 PointsHi omri,
I presume it will only be numbers entered in which case:
def add(a, b): return float(a) + float(b)
If not they may want the try, except route before returning.
Wameedh Mohammed Ali
16,572 PointsThis shoud work. What I did here, is just floated our argumnets befor I returned them.
def add(num1, num2):
a = float(num1)
b = float(num2)
return a + b
Hope this helped :)