Arithmetic operation in Python

Python provides different arithmetic operators for performing different operations on numerical data.

The list of arithmatic operation used in python is as follow.

x + y #Addition
x - y #Subtraction
x * y #Multiplication
x / y #Division
x // y #Truncating division
x ** y #Exponentiation. Sets x to the power y;
x % y #Modulo operator
–x #Unary minus
+x #Unary plus

Please note that x and y are variable name holding proper value. That means you can't do x/y if either of them is string. It will throw an error.

Division : It return the true integer value. e.g 2/3 = 0.67 will result in integer part of the result i.e 0. However if one of them is floating point it will give floating point result. e.g 2.0/3 = 0.67. But truncating division operator(//) will always return integer part and ignoring remainder no matter if one of them is floating or not.

Exponentiation : To apply exponentiation , you can use double asteriks . e.g a**b. There is in built python function called pow() to calculate the exponentiation. e.g pow(2,3)

Hope you get the idea about arithmetic operation in python. See you in the next tutorial till then "Happy Coding".

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