[issue46639] Ceil division with math.ceildiv

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Couldn't math.ceildiv(x, y) be implemented as -(-x//y) in a type-agnostic fashion?

Ah, good point. Yes, that could work.

We'd have to decide what to do about Decimal if we took this approach, since the -(-x//y) trick doesn't work there. (Document the issue? Try to make things work for Decimal?)

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