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		mmcnickle on Feb 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Python's integer division floors (2010) The same reason int(-1.999) is -1; The operation is different to integer division. I think of it as taking the "integer" part of the float.

Izkata on Feb 28, 2024 [–]

As the article mentions, this is called truncation. It truncates (cuts off) the value at the decimal point.

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