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What does your favorite programming language return for 3/2 as compared to 3.0/2.0? Many will return different values.

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for clarity of my point: integer math that uses machine types is pretty surprising compared to what we would expect from "math" in general for division.

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`3/2 = 1` is a consistent answer as long as the programmer understands modulo. The way you're phrasing it makes it sound like there are languages out there that say "`3/2 = 2` because 1.5 rounds up to 2".

just so long as you don't expect a consistent answer between python2.7 and 3.x... >.>

The phrasing is relatively clear to me as saying that some languages say 3/2 = 1.5 (e.g. JavaScript) and some languages say 3/2 = 1 (e.g. C).

Did you mean 2/3?

No. But most programming languages I know of return different results for 2/3 vs 2.0/3.0.

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