Python has a variety of operators to perform various arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, modulus and exponentiation. Here we will discuss the floor division operator in Python with some code snippets
The floor division operator (//) in Python performs division of 2 numbers. The floor division performs division and returns a value by rounding down to nearest integer. The numbers can be of the type integer or floating point. The first operand is called the dividend and the second operand is called the divisor. Let’s see some examples and understand the division operator.
Floor Division of 2 Integer numbers
In below code the floor division operator is used to perform division of 2 integers, the result is an integer value.
a=15
b=4
c=a//b
print(c) #3
print(type(c)) #intFloor Division of a Floating Point number and a Integer
In below code the floor division operator is used to perform division of a floating point number and an integer, the result is the a floating point value.
a=15.5
b=4
c=a//b
print(c) #3.0
print(type(c)) #floatFloor Division of a Integer and a Floating point number
In below code the floor division operator is used to perform division of an integer number and a floating point number, the result is a floating point value.
a=15
b=5.5
c=a//b
print(c) #2.0
print(type(c)) #floatFloor Division of 2 Floating Point numbers
In below code the floor division operator is used to perform division of 2 floating point numbers, the result is a floating point number.
a=15.5
b=4.5
c=a//b
print(c) #3.0
print(type(c)) #floatFloor Division using complex numbers
If floor division is used along with complex numbers, the operation throws a TypeError (unsupported operand type). The floor division operator cannot be used with complex values as operands. The following errors may be observed if any one operand is of type complex.
- TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: ‘complex’ and ‘int’
- TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: ‘complex’ and ‘float’
- TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: ‘int’ and ‘complex’
- TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: ‘float’ and ‘complex’