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knoi
knoi

Reputation: 1

>why -3/2=-2 and 3/2=1 in Python

why is negative 3 divided by two is negative two.And three divided by two is one in Python.I have tried it on IDLE and don't understand why.

why -3/2=-2 and 3/2=1 in Python

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2376

Answers (2)

EvergreenTree
EvergreenTree

Reputation: 2058

Because the two numbers you are dividing are integers, python 2 floors the quotient of 3/2. If you want to get a float as an answer, just do 3.0/2.0 instead. (note: you don't have to do this in python 3)

Upvotes: 2

Joran Beasley
Joran Beasley

Reputation: 114038

an int divided by an int is always floored to a new int .... (in python2x at least)

print math.floor(1.5),math.floor(-1.5)

(note that this is probably an oversimplification ....)

Upvotes: 0

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