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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-10-10 08:50:17 (GMT)
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doc: remove a misleading statement. (GH-98093)
(cherry picked from commit 571e23d99157ed7ad67ca2334a396fc9ddbe07ec) Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
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@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ the ones with a fractional part (e.g. ``5.0``, ``1.6``) have type
:class:`float`. We will see more about numeric types later in the tutorial.
Division (``/``) always returns a float. To do :term:`floor division` and
-get an integer result (discarding any fractional result) you can use the ``//``
-operator; to calculate the remainder you can use ``%``::
+get an integer result you can use the ``//`` operator; to calculate
+the remainder you can use ``%``::
>>> 17 / 3 # classic division returns a float
5.666666666666667