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Here's another good one for you... What does your favorite programming language return for 3/2 as compared to 3.0/2.0? Many will return different values. EDIT

Here's another good one for you... What does your favorite programming language return for 3/2 as compared to 3.0/2.0? Many will return different values. EDIT: 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.

std_throwaway 8y ago
Did you mean 2/3?
- spooneybarger 8y ago
  No. But most programming languages I know of return different results for 2/3 vs 2.0/3.0.
jshap70 8y ago
`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... >.>
- Zarel 8y ago
  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).