PEP0238 lament

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 14:22:21 -0400, Tim Peters <tim.one at home.com> wrote:

>It shouldn't be so hard to understand why.  The current integer division
>loses information silently and without a trace.

No, it doesn't.  Integer division is integer division.  The
correct answer for the value of 3/4 is 0.  If you wanted the
remainder, you should ask for it.  If you want to divide
floating point numbers, you should _use_ floating point numbers.

Perhaps my mind was warped by using nothing but integer
arithmatic in my software for many years because floating point
was simply too slow and too expensive.

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