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  r77062 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-27 14:55:57 +0000 (Sun, 27 Dec 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue #1811:  Improve accuracy and consistency of true division for integers.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
+  true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
+  rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in
+  particular does not depend on the internal representation of an int.
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 - Issue #6834: replace the implementation for the 'python' and 'pythonw'
   executables on OSX.