Imprecise description of round on page /pages/data_types/coercion.html

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Imprecise description of round on page /pages/data_types/coercion.html #2134

Open lukeu opened 3 months ago

lukeu commented 3 months ago

print(int(-6.8)) returns -6 so to say it always rounds "down" seems imprecise. Should maybe say the truncation rounds towards zero?

(Disclaimer: I don't use Python, I just tried it in a repl.)

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