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| Started by | Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2014-08-14 11:46 -0600 |
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Re: Odd floor-division corner case Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 11:46 -0600
| From | Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2014-08-14 11:46 -0600 |
| Subject | Re: Odd floor-division corner case |
| Message-ID | <mailman.13006.1408038440.18130.python-list@python.org> |
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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