I need to apply the ceiling function to arbitrary sized (long) integers. However, division automatically returns the type of its operands, so that, for example: math.ceil(7/4) returns 1. I can use float, as in: math.ceil(7/float(4)), except that for very large integers float causes an unacceptable loss of precision.
What is the best way of finding a ceiling of a quotient of arbitrary sized integers? Thanks, Alasdair -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
