Ordinary division with operator 2.
Python floor division operation.
Python 3 s approach provides a fractional answer so that when you use to divide 11 by 2 the quotient of 5 5 will be returned.
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Bitwise operator works on bits and performs bit by bit.
This means that a b first divides a by b and gets the integer quotient while discarding the remainder.
Also referred to as integer division.
Floor division the division of operands where the result is the quotient in which the digits after the decimal point are removed.
The operator in python 3 is used to perform floor based division.
The dividend and the divisor.
There are two types of division operations in python.
Python 2 s operator performs floor division where for the quotient x the number returned is the largest integer less than or equal to x.
In python 2 the quotient returned for the expression 11 2 is 5.
Floor division and modulo are linked by the following identity x x y y x y which is why modulo also yields unexpected results for negative numbers not just floor division.
Operators are used to perform operations on variables and values.
Python operator examples.
This means that the result of a b is always an integer.
However the operator returns a float value if one of the arguments is a float this is similar to c filter none.
Python divides the operators in the following groups.
Division works differently in python 2 and 3.
The resultant value is a whole integer though the result s type is not necessarily int.
In python 2 7 the operator works as a floor division for integer arguments.
But if one of the operands is negative the result is floored i e rounded away from zero towards negative infinity.
Floor division with operator note.
In python the floor division operator consists of two forward slashes.
Floor division in python figure 1.
Here are a few examples to illustrate the same.
