What does operator ./ in python mean

Question

I read this question Evenly distributing n points on a sphere and in one of the answers in python was used this:

offset = 2./samples

I was trying to find what does it mean but I didn't succeed. At first, I thought it is something with directories (./ like in Linux command line) but that doesn't make any sense actually.

If this is too basic or duplicate I am sorry, but I didn't find it anywhere.

Answer 1

There's no ./ operator, the . is part of the number. That is you have the number 2. (which is the same as 2.0), followed by the / operator, followed by samples. With spaces, it'd be 2. / samples.

And, as you know, / is the division operator.