On Apr 10, 9:28 pm, bdsatish <bdsat... at gmail.com> wrote: > How does (a/b) work when both 'a' and 'b' are pure integers ? Python defines the quotient and remainder from integer division so that a = qb + r and 0<=r < abs(b). C/C++ lets the remainder be negative. >>> divmod(-9,2) (-5, 1) >>> divmod(9,2) (4, 1) casevh