Python also supports floor division using floats. The result of floor-dividing floats is a float that represents the closest integer. Let's have a look at the following float-based floor division ...

Python has two division operators, a single slash ( / ) character for classic division and a double-slash ( // ) character for “floor” division. Classic division means that if the operands are both ...

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 ...

An operator is, in general, a typographical symbol that means something special to the Python interpreter, and tells it to do something with the literals or ... floor division, modulo (all same ...