I am very new to python and coding as a whole, so this might be something very basic. I am trying to execute this code, but instead of multiplying the value, it just doubles the numerical. I have tried changing it multiple times in different places, but nothing works. Here is the code:
num=input("Enter a number:")
doub=num*2
print("Double of {0}, is {1}".format(num,doub))
If num is 4, instead of outputting num*2 as 8, it outputs it as 44.
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Thanks!
You need to convert the num variable from string to integer or decimal:
num = input("Enter a number:")
doub = int(num) * 2 # <-- HERE
print("Double of {0}, is {1}".format(num, doub))