Question about slight deviations when using integer division with large integers.

[Ian Kelly]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 10:27 PM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
>
> On 30Dec2018 21:14, Christian Seberino <cseberino at gmail.com> wrote:
> >What is simplest way to make both those
> >prints give same values?  Any slicker way
> >than an if statement?
>
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The Google group has an initial post in this thread that didn't make it
through to the mailing list for whatever reason. For posterity, here
it is:

> Why are the following two similar prints slightly different and how fix?
>
> >>> x = 0x739ad43ed636
>
> >>> print(x + (-x) // 2048)
> 127046758190683
>
> >>> print(x - x // 2048)
> 127046758190684
>
> I'm working in an area where such deviations matter.  It would nice to understand what is happening.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> cs