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olusola ojo
Courses Plus Student 498 Pointscreating and using functions
Task : "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."
def add(num1.float(), num2.float()):
return (num1.float() + num2.float())
2 Answers
Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 PointsYou should not use methods/functions on arguments, they something like this instead:
def add(num1, num2):
num1 = float(num1)
num2 = float(num2)
return num1 + num2
Anibal Marquina
9,523 PointsWhen you define your function, you are calling the float() method on the num1 and num2 arguments which is incorrect. First, you need to pass the arguments and then call a method on them..float(num).
On the order hand, methods and functions are first class citizens, this means.. they can be pass as arguments, but this is not the subject of this challenge.
def add(num1, num2):
return float(num1) + float(num2)
print(add(3.4,5.5))
olusola ojo
Courses Plus Student 498 Pointsolusola ojo
Courses Plus Student 498 PointsThank you so much for reaching out with an answer Henrik