Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> Mark Lawrence wrote: >> >>> On 24/01/2015 06:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>> Obviously I'm not a fanatic. If I'm working out my share of a $37 meal >>>> split three ways, I just do 37/3 the same as anyone else :-) >>>> >>> >>> Always rounding down I take it? :) >> >> I'm hurt. I have a maths degree, I know how to do division: >> >> _____ >> 3| 37 >> >> >> 3 goes into 3 once, and 3 goes into 7 twice with one remainder. So the >> answer is 12 and 1/3. > > I'm not sure whereabouts you are, but I don't have a $1/3 coin in my > pocket most of the time. Mark probably doesn't have many £1/3 coins > either. So... rounding up or down? :)
I'm right here, in front of my computer. Where are you? Of course we don't have $1/3 dollar coins, but I do have a pair of tin-snips and can easily cut a $1 coin into three equal pieces. Either that, or make up change with 20¢, 10¢ and 5¢ (we practice round-to-nearest-5-cents here). -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
