CS people what do you call // ?

[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.

[bencurthoys@mastodon.social]

@futurebird I'd say "division with remainder" if explaining it to a child. "Sixteen divided by five is three remainder one".

But my first computer - a BBC Model B - had DIV and MOD operators

https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/tutorial/chapter05.html

and I was comfortable using them towards the tail end of primary school.

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@ehproque @futurebird I'm an astronomer. Let's call it ten for now...

[khleedril@cyberplace.social]

@futurebird I have no idea what this even means, but I call it "Slash, slash."

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@khleedril @ehproque

**muffled whimpering**

stoooop

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@khleedril @futurebird I'm a quantum physicist, let's call it 1

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@khleedril

You and the whole fifth grade.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@khleedril @futurebird ℏ=h, where is your God now

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird Comment?

*ducks*

[llewelly@sauropods.win]

@futurebird in all seriousnessness, the use of "floor divide" implies the result is rounded towards negative infinity, in contrast with "trunc divide" , which implies rounding toward zero, an important distinction when one operand turns out to be negative. Now here's a question: in your favorite languages, which way does integer divide behave? Does the language definition even require a particular behavior? (C90 and C99 for example call it "implementation defined". )

[jhominal@mastodon.social]

@martok this operator has returned an int since it was added in Python 2.2, so this seems weird?

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird Jokes aside, is it a floor or a towards-zero like the awful C "division" operator? That would affect proper naming a lot.