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Created on 2013-11-13 21:01 by vatroslavsuton, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg202778 - (view) | Author: Vatroslav Suton (vatroslavsuton) | Date: 2013-11-13 21:01 | |
integer division obviously uses float division with math.floor, which produces invalid result when result is less than 0, simply try the following 5/2 versus -5/2. Please use math.ceil function for results less than 0. btw is there any way to patch that in __builtins__ ? |
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| msg202782 - (view) | Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *  |
Date: 2013-11-13 21:34 | |
This is not an aspect of Python that can possibly change, I'm afraid, for backward compatibility reasons. |
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| msg202784 - (view) | Author: Mark Dickinson (mark.dickinson) * |
Date: 2013-11-13 21:38 | |
See also http://docs.python.org/2/faq/programming.html#why-does-22-10-return-3 BTW, integer division does not use float division internally. That would fail for integers too large to be exactly representable as floats. The implementation can be seen in Objects/intobject.c and Objects/longobject.c if you're interested. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:57:53 | admin | set | github: 63773 |
| 2013-11-13 21:38:21 | mark.dickinson | set | nosy:
+ mark.dickinson messages: + msg202784 |
| 2013-11-13 21:34:50 | r.david.murray | set | status: open -> closed superseder: Integer division for negative numbers nosy: + r.david.murray messages: + msg202782 resolution: duplicate stage: resolved |
| 2013-11-13 21:01:28 | vatroslavsuton | create | |