A python question for the gurus: How does python 3+ handle integer division? I ported an elliptic curve factorization library to python 3 and it is now running considerably slower then its python ...

This repository demonstrates a less common type of error in Python that can easily be overlooked: integer division by zero using the floor division operator (//).

What Does // Mean in Python? One of the many operators in Python is the double slash // operator, which refers to an integer division (or a division with no remainder/decimals) which is called Floor ...

Remember that this is what’s called “floor division.” What Python does, is that it calculates the (floating-point) quotient and then applies the floor function. The floor function is a mathematical ...