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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst index 1b3faae..b279f71 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst @@ -60,16 +60,9 @@ operators ``+``, ``-``, ``*`` and ``/`` work just like in most other languages Note: You might not see exactly the same result; floating point results can differ from one machine to another. We will say more later about controlling -the appearance of floating point output; what we see here is the most -informative display but not as easy to read as we would get with:: - - >>> print(8/5) - 1.6 - -For clarity in this tutorial we will show the simpler floating point output -unless we are specifically discussing output formatting, and explain later -why these two ways of displaying floating point data come to be different. -See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a full discussion. +the appearance of floating point output. See also :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a +full discussion of some of the subtleties of floating point numbers and their +representations. To do integer division and get an integer result, discarding any fractional result, there is another operator, ``//``:: |