CS people what do you call // ?

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@futurebird I think integer division or quotient.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird do you know how to get pi in c++?

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@futurebird a comment

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ehproque

um... not really. What do you do? load a math library?

I mean, how much pi do we need? Just type out ten decimal places and make it a global.

[viccie30@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird floor divide, because I use a lot of Python and that's what Python calls it

[follpvosten@karp.lol]

@futurebird attrset update

[bencurthoys@mastodon.social]

@futurebird DIV and MOD.

16 DIV 5 = 3
16 MOD 5 = 1

[martok@mstdn.social]

@futurebird I used to call it integer division until I learned that at least in Python it doesn't actually return an int.
Now I just call it The Thing That Looks Like It Does What I Need But Better Stay Away From.

[bencurthoys@mastodon.social]

@futurebird
a = (a DIV b) * b + (a MOD b)

[tthbaltazar@chaos.social]

@follpvosten
I'm going to bite you

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird nobody knows! There's like a zillion ways to do it because there isn't something like a
"
include <maths>
maths::pi
"

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@bencurthoys

Would you say "a div b" if explaining it to a fifth grader?

[amenonsen@mastodon.social]

@futurebird A comment 🏃‍♂️‍➡️

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird I mean, I'm an engineer, int pi=3

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@amenonsen

GET OUT

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@ehproque

Making it an int is EXTRA offensive. I could forgive float pi=3

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird but then I can't just divide an int by it and get the result into an int!

[amenonsen@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Darn, I just clicked on reply and didn't see that n people had already said the same thing. Sorry.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@futurebird I'd have to do // but the text turns grey when I do that!

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@futurebird I'd call it an integer divide, I think.