On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> Personally, I find the following the most unintuitive:
> divmod(-11, 3) == (-4, 1)
>
> So, we overshoot -11 and then add 1 to go back to the right place?
> That violates my intuitive thought that abs((n//d)*d) <= abs(n) ought to
> hold.
>
Ha
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
Shouldn't by mathematical definition -x // y be the same as -(x// y)?
Tradeoffs, tradeoffs.
Most everyone agrees on this rule for the relation between // and %:
x == y*(x//y) + x%y
If // is defined as above, then, for instance, x%2 has 3
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Xavier Ho wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chris Rebert wrote:
>> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
>> wrote:
>> > Shouldn't by mathematical definition -x // y be the same as -(x // y)?
>> > I think this rather odd. Is there any deeper re
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Mathias Panzenböck
> wrote:
> > Shouldn't by mathematical definition -x // y be the same as -(x // y)?
> > I think this rather odd. Is there any deeper reason to this behaviour? I
> > guess changing this will
