Feb 23, 2012 · import math math.floor(3.1415) The problem with the first approach is that it return a float (namely 3.0). The second approach feels clumsy and too long. Are there alternative …

In Python 3.x, 5 / 2 will return 2.5 and 5 // 2 will return 2. The former is floating point division, and the latter is floor division, sometimes also called integer division. In Python 2.2 or later in the …

Dec 21, 2011 · The python functions are wrappers of the C function and so this is really a deficiency of the C functions where they should have returned an integer and forced the …

5 Rounding down can be done in many ways, some methods are equivalent, e.g. built-in int, numpy.trunc and numpy.fix which truncate the number, meaning for a negative number they …

The question is not why floating point results are not exact but more about why python does two different things for floor(8.0/0.4) and the"floor-division" 8.0//0.4.

Sep 14, 2015 · Ceil and floor equivalent in Python 3 without Math module? Asked 10 years, 2 months ago Modified 3 years, 5 months ago Viewed 73k times

Sep 23, 2019 · The function np.round accepts a decimals parameter but it appears that the functions ceil and floor don't accept a number of decimals and always return a number with …

The expression 6 // 4 yields 1, where floor division produces the whole number after dividing a number. But with a negative number, why does -6 // 4 return -2?

I need to round down and it should be two decimal places. Tried the following, a = 28.266 print round(a, 2) 28.27 But the expected value is 28.26 only.

Dec 21, 2014 · I have a pandas series series. If I want to get the element-wise floor or ceiling, is there a built in method or do I have to write the function and use apply? I ask because the data …