is there a better way to divide ints and round down to an int than this ```floor(int1.toDouble() / i...

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[Bernhard]

is there a better way to divide ints and round down to an int than this

floor(int1.toDouble() / int2).toInt()

[Vampire]

Why don't you simply do an integer division?
int1 / int2

[Vampire]

fun main() {
    val three: Int = 3
    val two: Int = 2
    println(three / two)
}

results in printing 1

[Rob Elliot]

Just to be clear, int division always rounds down: 9/5 == 1

[Bernhard]

thanks, types required in floor probably confused me

[Bernhard]

and I wasn’t sure if there was something like / and // in python

[Vampire]

You mean -1 I guess @Rob Elliot , but there indeed is a difference, the snippet of Bernhard gives -2

[Vampire]

What do / and // in Python do?

[Rob Elliot]

I’d left a space after the hyphen, but I’ve clarified it now

[Vampire]

Well, for negative numbers it is indeed different.
Original snippet with floor always rounds towards negative infinity.
Pure integer division always rounds towards 0

[Rob Elliot]

Good point, big difference.

[Vampire]

And also different from Python, there / as integer division rounds towards negative infinity if https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/division-operator-in-python/ is correct and // does the same even for floating point numbers where / would do proper division.

[Vampire]

So I guess you actually need to use floor to get the same result as with Python / if negative numbers are involved
and to get the same result as with Python //.