[Python-Dev] Floor division (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Tue Jan 23 17:03:03 CET 2007

Hi Tim,

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:08:18PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

>BTW - isn't that case in contradiction with the general Python rule that >if b > 0, then a % b should return a number between 0 included and b >excluded?

Sure.

You're not addressing my point, though, so I was probably not clear enough. My surprize was not that a % b was equal to b in this case, and so not strictly smaller than b (because I expect such things when working with floats). My surprize was that Decimals don't even try to be between 0 and b, and sometimes give a result that is far outside the range. This surprized me because I expected floats and Decimals to try to give "approximately equal" results...

A bientot,

Armin

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