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| author | Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> | 2006-03-25 21:27:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> | 2006-03-25 21:27:08 (GMT) |
| commit | af7bb8e95a1d7b1b2d35d3abdc9fe38786478161 (patch) | |
| tree | dd1869d535da17cbf9e0e2b49f49a30b01db3143 | |
| parent | 1fcf87f138028255a9f0c03a093e98f6225f50c0 (diff) | |
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Backport of rev 43312:
SF bug # 1457358 and patch # 1458419, floor division not documented. Patch by Andy.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 519082f..b1f3dc1 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ comparison operations): \hline \lineiii{\var{x} * \var{y}}{product of \var{x} and \var{y}}{} \lineiii{\var{x} / \var{y}}{quotient of \var{x} and \var{y}}{(1)} + \lineiii{\var{x} // \var{y}}{(floored) quotient of \var{x} and \var{y}}{(5)} \lineiii{\var{x} \%{} \var{y}}{remainder of \code{\var{x} / \var{y}}}{(4)} \hline \lineiii{-\var{x}}{\var{x} negated}{} @@ -299,6 +300,9 @@ Complex floor division operator, modulo operator, and \function{divmod()}. \deprecated{2.3}{Instead convert to float using \function{abs()} if appropriate.} +\item[(5)] +Also referred to as integer division. The resultant value is a whole integer, +though the result's type is not necessarily int. \end{description} % XXXJH exceptions: overflow (when? what operations?) zerodivision |