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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.arch
Subject: Re: Integer division
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 19:52:55 EST
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At least C calls it '%', and not 'MOD', as in Pascal.  Unless someone
tells you that % means MOD, you have some small chance of realizing that
it might not do exactly what you want.

I would still rather have (-1)/1000000000000 = 0, not -1.
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