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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: F.P. vs. arbitrary-precision
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Date: 11 Sep 90 00:36:13 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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(someone wrote)
> > As for integer divide, less of a case can be made, and I can do without
> > it. Although integer quotient and remainder are probably computed
> > simultaneously, some languages (like C) force one to get those results
> > separately.

This is not true of ANSI C.  There are div() and ldiv() functions
(the names may be wrong) which return quotient and remainder together.
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