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* Rounding to the nearest smaller integer is floor semantics, not "floor and ceiling".

* Floor and ceiling are simply utility functions, not any sort of "mathematical law". Both of them -- along with the "nearest to zero" rounding performed by some other languages are equally valid mathematically (and to be strictly precise, '''none''' of them follow the generally accepted guidelines for mathematical rounding).

[[User:FellGleaming|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkmagenta;"><b>F</b>ell <b>G</b>leaming</fontspan>]]^{[[User talk:FellGleaming|<fontspan colorstyle="color:black;">talk</fontspan>]]} 11:13, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

:Hi Fell. I can see your point, but I'm not happy with the current wording. It seems to imply that Python is out of step with other languages (which it is), but that there is no basis with the decision for Python to floor towards -infinity (which is wrong - it's a clear decision, as your ref clearly shows).