[Python-ideas] division oddness

[Xavier Ho]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> 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.
>

Haha, really? *gives it a try* Oh wow...

Yeah. I don't like that either.

Cheers,
Xav
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