A use for integer quotients

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Mon Jul 23 11:54:08 EDT 2001


Just van Rossum wrote:

> Do you really want 2047 bytes to be shown as 1 kbyte? Integer division
> is a lousy tool in this particular example...

Just add 512 to it first.

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