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Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience

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Date Tue, 5 May 2015 03:40:50 +1000
Subject Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience
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On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> That is a broad question, but one thing that comes to mind is the current (python 3)
> behavior of integer division. It gives the exact result and doesn't truncate to integers:
>
>
>>>> 5/4
> 1.25

Using the word "exact" around non-integer values can be a little
ambiguous, since floats are often inexact. But yes, int/int -> float,
and yes, it WILL bite C programmers.

ChrisA

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  Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> - 2015-05-04 10:18 -0700
  Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-05-04 19:32 +0200
    Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 03:40 +1000
      Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2015-05-08 10:47 +0000
        Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-08 21:32 +1000
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    Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2015-05-04 21:57 +0100
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      Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-04 19:17 -0400
  Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-05-04 16:06 -0400
  Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-04 23:02 +0100
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    Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience random832@fastmail.us - 2015-05-06 09:11 -0400
    Re: Bitten by my C/Java experience Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-06 23:16 +1000

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