Floor value in math operators

[AggieDan04]

On Apr 8, 12:08 pm, David Smith <d... at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Avi wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > This will be a very simple question to ask all the awesome programmers
> > here:
>
> > How can I get answer in in decimals for such a math operator:
>
> > 3/2
>
> > I get 1. I want to get 1.5
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Avi
>
> I'm going to assume your operands are variables instead of numeric
> literals.  Why not consider doing a type conversion to float or Decimal
> and then perform the division?

Because float(x) and Decimal(x) fail for complex numbers and lose
precision if x is a rational or a multi-precision float.