[Numpy-discussion] ?

[Rainer Deyke]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
news:39F8DB20.C9FBE4ED at holdenweb.com...
> I can understand and* appreciate all the arguments suggesting that
> division of two integers should yield a non-integer result.  Maybe
> I've just been programming too long, so I have fixed ideas about
> how the integers should behave in programming, which is NOT the way
> they behave in mathematics.

It should be noted that kids in school typically learn integer division with
remainder before they learn about fractions or decimal numbers.


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