Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.170 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.67; '*S*': 0.01; 'subject:question': 0.10; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'received:10.0.1': 0.19; 'feb': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'really': 0.36; 'christopher': 0.36; 'subject:Simple': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:10.0': 0.36; 'received:10': 0.37; 'pm,': 0.38; 'around.': 0.60; 'numbers': 0.61; 'times': 0.62; 'header:Message-Id:1': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; '2014,': 0.84; 'to:addr:live.com': 0.84 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020205.52FAECAF.00AA,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=E9kTU9hl c=1 sm=1 a=MB85R812cvcrhCHz/P2OVA==:17 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=yYlZIzagzJ4A:10 a=Zk3OmFfbAAAA:8 a=7g07hTeuh64TJq1YSdQA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=x46t9oslO7cA:10 a=OfjcYh3ikY4A:10 a=WUYPSDPziVEA:10 a=MB85R812cvcrhCHz/P2OVA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; auth=pass (PLAIN) smtp.auth=swdunning@cox.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.1 \(1827\)) Subject: Re: Simple % question From: Scott W Dunning In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:38:21 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <63EBCBF1-6C1B-4B8B-9D4A-0567CBDA978A@cox.net> To: Christopher Welborn X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1827) Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 9 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1392176316 news.xs4all.nl 2881 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:35361 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:65990 On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Christopher Welborn = wrote: > I think because 1 is evenly divisible by 10 exactly 0 times with a 1 > remainder. I mean int(1 / 10) =3D=3D 0, with a 1 remainder. > The same is true for all numbers leading up to 10. >=20 Actually I think I get it now. I think I was not really looking at it = as 1/10 more like the other way around. =20=