PEP 238 (revised)

[Manoj Plakal]

Ken Seehof <kens at sightreader.com> wrote on Thursday 26 July 2001 20:08:
> I like quotient too just because the word hasn't been used yet.   Yes,
> this truncates towards zero, but I don't really think of it in those
> terms.
> That's an algebraic way of looking at things.  I think of this "quotient"
> concept as a companion to "modulus".  It's a nice clean concept that
> maintains closure for integers, rather than a truncation of something.
> The term "floor division" to distinguish from "true division" seems
> somehow less pure, since the concept is dragged in from the world of
> real numbers.
> 
> Hmm, does this mean we rename divmod to quomod?  :-)


        How about quasimodo :) Is Quasi-Modulus defined in math?

        Manoj