A use for integer quotients

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> During the debate on changing int/int to give a float result, some
    >> proponents appeared to question the usefulness of integer quotients.

    Moshe> Yes. Nobody said it wasn't of any use, people just claim it is
    Moshe> *less* useful, and so should not be the most easily
    Moshe> accessible. You can still have i//j for all your combinatorics
    Moshe> needs.

I'd like to see some support for the claim that int/int==float is preferred
by a sufficiently large fraction of the current population that it shouldn't
be spelled int//int==float.

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