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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: Mon, 10-Feb-86 01:53:59 EST
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In article <731@abic.UUCP> jst@abic.UUCP (Shack Toms) writes:
>However:  One might use a%b<0 iff a<0 in an algorithm which printed
>the value of an integer in a given radix.  The least significant
>digit of a in radix b would then be |a%b|.  :-)

So would |a|%b, and it works under either convention.  :-)

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