I am not able to understand what's going on here

Question

print(-11//3)

and the answer is. -4

How's that possible. That's why Python is weird.

Answer 1

Divide 11 by 3 you will get quotient as 3.6 but if you do floor division of 11 by 3 you’ll get 3 as result just because floor division removes the digits after the decimal point.

But if either of 11 or 3 is negative then in simple division you’ll get -3.6 but in floor division the answer will be floored and rounded away from zero and the final result will be -4.

Answer 2

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/461705/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/980266/?ref=app

Answer 3

Prashant Kumar, // in Python stands for floor division. That is, the quotient you get from the division is rounded *down* to the nearest integer.

Which means, floor division (//) travels towards the left of the number line.

In your problem, (-11/3) = -3.6.
Rounding it down gives -4

Therefore, (-11//3) = -4. ___(Ans.)

Hope it helps. 😊