[issue25129] suboptimal floating-point floor division

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

IEEE 754 uses the ROUND_HALF_EVEN rounding mode by default:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even

That's why round() uses the same rounding mode. I discovered recently while working on the datetime module :-) (issue #23517)

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nosy: +haypo

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