[issue25129] suboptimal floating-point floor division

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

> What is the rounding mode used by true division,

For binary floats?  It inherits whatever the platform C's x/y double division uses.  Should be nearest/even on "almost all" platforms now, unless the user fiddles with their FPU's rounding flags.

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