i got this error
ImportError: bad magic number in 'math': b'\x03\xf3
'

Question

in this code
```python
import math
def splitcheck(total, numberofpeople):
    return math.ceil(total / numberof_people)
total = float(input("What is the total? "))
numberofpeoples = int(input("How many poeple? "))
amountdue = splitcheck(total,numberofpeoples)
print("Each person owns ${}".format(amount_due))
```
i got this error
python
    import math
ImportError: bad magic number in 'math': b'\x03\xf3
'

Chris Freeman · Accepted Answer

Hey @Anshuman Nag (https://teamtreehouse.com/anshumannag), very interesting question!
The bad magic number refers to the number encoded in the compiled .pyc files to indicate Python version:
```python
int.from_bytes(b'\x03\xf3', "little")
62211
```
Then decode from here (https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/master/pytype/pyc/magic.py), says the math.pyc file was compiled using Python 2.7.
Your virtual environment might be incorrect (running Python 3.x but seeing Python 2.7 libs), or you might need to remove the .pyc files (possibly in __pycache__ directory) and rerun.
To inspect the magic number in a pyc file, you can use:
```python
pathtofile = 'pycache/dicehandfile.cpython-38.pyc'
with open(pathtofile, 'r+b') as f:
...     magic = f.read(2)
... 
magic
b'U\r'
int.from_bytes(magic, "little")
3413
python 3.8 b4
```
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!

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i got this error ImportError: bad magic number in 'math': b'\x03\xf3\r\n'

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Chris Freeman

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