Comment on PEP-0238

[Greg Ewing]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> Example: a school has 4
> first grade classrooms and 82 new first graders.  If we split the students
> evenly among the classrooms, how many in each?  The correct answer is 20
> with 2 left over, not 20.5.

I'd say the correct answer is neither of those -- it's
(21, 21, 20, 20). Leaving the two remaining pupils
uneducated is not an option that I'd expect any
decent school to consider. :-)

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