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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients def, mark.dickinson, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2019-11-27.12:26:09
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To get 20.45 use the true division operator /.

If float // int would return int, 1e300 // 2 would return a 300-digit integer. It takee more memory and its creation is slower than 5e299. In addition it does not make sense to provide such precision.
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