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Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x?

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Date Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:02:40 -0500
Subject Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x?
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> x % 1 is significantly faster, but has the disadvantage of giving the
> complement of the fraction if x is negative

I suppose

abs(x) % 1

would be just as slow as

x - int(x)

? (haven't checked)

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Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-23 23:52 +1100
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2015-03-23 08:02 -0500
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-23 13:11 +0000
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-03-23 06:17 -0700
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-03-23 17:38 -0700
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com> - 2015-03-24 21:39 -0400
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-03-26 13:48 -0700
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2015-03-26 21:59 +0000
  Re: Best way to calculate fraction part of x? Russell Owen <rowen@uw.edu> - 2015-03-26 15:02 -0700

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