A use for integer quotients

Just van Rossum just at letterror.com
Mon Jul 23 04:13:40 EDT 2001


David Eppstein wrote:

> Ok, you convinced me to look more carefully at all the divisions in my
> recent small project, a program to generate web pages from collections of
> JPEGs.  I found:
> 
> 3 instances of simplifying numbers prior to output (e.g. I want file size
> in kbytes rather than bytes).
> [ ... ]

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

Just



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