From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: forcing float arithmetic.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 18:45:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0421525d-8304-6142-04bd-4f564ca043c0@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210325013641.GE18178@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2>
On 2021-03-24 6:36 p.m., Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> The «/» operator is defined to perform integer division (discarding the
> remainder) when both of its arguments are integers, and floating-point
> division otherwise.
Sounds pretty well written in stone. One of those things that goes back
from before the flood.
>
> Python 3's division operator always returns floats.
I'd think of it as polite. Just now I'm doing this:
(( divided = sum * 1.0 / level ))
... and it really does seem belabored.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-25 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-24 17:19 Ray Andrews
2021-03-24 17:56 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-24 21:51 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-24 21:54 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-24 21:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-25 1:12 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 1:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-03-25 1:45 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2021-03-25 2:37 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-03-25 3:22 ` Ray Andrews
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