clearly not a horse posted:

EDIT: In hindsight, ignore this post and treat it like poo poo. The problem was just division by zero.


I am having a small problem with floating point numbers here, and I know I am doing something terribly wrong - I just need help to point out the error.

Below is a small function for generating a crude approximation of eulers number, where a fraction of (1/n) is added for each iteration. I may be even wrong with my approach, but the point is the error I get during interpretation.

code:

from math import *

def e (depth):
    base = 1.0
    for n in range(depth):
        base += 1.0/n
        print base

When I run the function, I get this error:
File "/Applications/WingIDE.app/Contents/MacOS/src/debug/tserver/_sandbox.py", line 6, in e
ZeroDivisionError: float division