Operations on Numbers
The following operations can be applied to all numeric types:
| Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| x + y | Addition |
| x - y | Subtraction |
| x * y | Multiplication |
| x / y | Division |
| x ** y | Power (x y ) |
| x % y | Modulo (x mod y ) |
| -x | Unary minus |
| +x | Unary plus |
For integers, division truncates the result to an integer. Thus, 7/4 is 1, not 1.75. The modulo operator returns the remainder of the division x / y . For example, 7 % 4 is 3. For floating-point numbers, the modulo operator returns the floating-point remainder of x / y , which is x - int(x / y ) * y . For complex numbers, the modulo operator returns x - int((x / y ).real ) * y .
The following shifting and bitwise logical operators can only be applied to integers and long integers: ...
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