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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Integer division
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 00:58:43 EST
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In article <1671@utah-gr.UUCP> thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>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.

What about (-999999999999)/1000000000000 ?
What about (+999999999999)/1000000000000 ?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720