Re: Odd floor-division corner case

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From	Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date	2014-08-14 11:46 -0600
Subject	Re: Odd floor-division corner case
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> From http://bugs.python.org/issue22198
>
>>>> -0.5 // float('inf')
> -1.0

Looks like the result is the same for any negative dividend.

> What should it be?

It's surprising, but I think it's correct. A negative infinitesimal
would be less than 0, so its floor should be -1, not 0.

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Re: Odd floor-division corner case Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 11:46 -0600

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