On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:16:39 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:26:35 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> Alasdair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> What is the best way of finding a ceiling of a quotient of arbitrary >>> sized integers? >> >> ceiling(a/b) = (a+b-1)//b > > > Unfortunately that doesn't work reliably.
But of course you didn't intend it to work with floats, did you? Sigh. I'm just glad I didn't rant about people who think that floats are just like reals when they're not. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
