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division

How can I force division to be floating point? Division keeps rounding down to 0?

August 22, 2022 by Magenaut

I have two integer values a and b, but I need their ratio in floating point. I know that a < b and I want to calculate a / b, so if I use integer division I’ll always get 0 with a remainder of a.

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Why does integer division yield a float instead of another integer?

August 22, 2022 by Magenaut

Consider this division in Python:

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Integer division in Python 2 and Python 3

August 21, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I divide two numbers in Python 2.7 and get the result with decimals?

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Negative integer division surprising result

August 20, 2022 by Magenaut

In my application I encountered the following and was surprised by the results:

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Python 3 integer division

August 15, 2022 by Magenaut

In Python 3 vs Python 2.6, I’ve noticed that I can divide two integers and get a float. How do you get the Python 2.6 behaviour back? Is there a different method to get int/int = int? Answers: Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help … Read more

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Floor division with negative number

August 14, 2022 by Magenaut

The expression 6 // 4 yields 1, where floor division produces the whole number after dividing a number.

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Make division by zero equal to zero

August 13, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I ignore ZeroDivisionError and make n / 0 == 0?

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