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Issue #6354 continued: reword confusing tutorial note on the (no-longer

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existing) difference between str(8/5) and repr(8/5).
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@ -60,16 +60,9 @@ operators ``+``, ``-``, ``*`` and ``/`` work just like in most other languages
Note: You might not see exactly the same result; floating point results can
differ from one machine to another. We will say more later about controlling
the appearance of floating point output; what we see here is the most
informative display but not as easy to read as we would get with::
>>> print(8/5)
1.6
For clarity in this tutorial we will show the simpler floating point output
unless we are specifically discussing output formatting, and explain later
why these two ways of displaying floating point data come to be different.
See :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a full discussion.
the appearance of floating point output. See also :ref:`tut-fp-issues` for a
full discussion of some of the subtleties of floating point numbers and their
representations.
To do integer division and get an integer result,
discarding any fractional result, there is another operator, ``//``::