[Steven D'Aprano ]
> Sure, for floats. I certainly wouldn't want to change the behaviour for
> floats. We could change the behaviour for ints (or at least we could if
> not constrained by backwards compatibility) or add a new function.
We could - but why would we? Just because a thing _can_ be don
On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 03:49:28PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Steven D'Aprano ]
> > Sure, for floats. I certainly wouldn't want to change the behaviour for
> > floats. We could change the behaviour for ints (or at least we could if
> > not constrained by backwards compatibility) or add a new funct
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:30 PM MRAB wrote:
> Wikipedia describes Euclidean division.
>
> Basically, the modulo is non-negative:
>
> a == b * q + r where 0 <= r < abs(b)
That convention in the Wikipedia article dates back to a 2004 edit by
an anonymous (IP) editor. The only reference in that
