Why does integer division yield a float instead of another integer?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1282...

Question links:
[How can I force division to be floating point? Division keeps rounding down to 0?]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1267...

Accepted answer links:
[PEP-238]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/

Answer 4 links:
[PEP 238]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0238/

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