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| Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:40:17 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: Simple % question |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Scott W Dunning <swdunning@cox.net> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The real question is: What do you expect that symbol to mean? >> >> Its actual meaning is quite simple. In long division, dividing one >> number by another looks like this: > > Yeah I understand what the % means. It just confused me that 1%10 was 1. In my thought process it just didn’t work. 1/10= .1 and I just didn’t see where the remainder of 1 came in. > Ah, yes. When Python 2 -> Python 3 changed the meaning of / the meaning of % got tied instead to //. But if you think about it, with the floating-point result you're describing there, it simply makes no sense to even ask what the remainder is. So, if you're going to use %, use //, and then it all makes sense. ChrisA
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