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From: cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES)
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Subject: Integer Division
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 19:12:35 EST
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> I have no objection, but *always* there should be one non-screwed-up
> definition.

I looked in the C manual expecting to find the following caveat:

	" The % operator is whatever is left in the `remainder'
	register by the particular divide instruxion used on
	the host computer"

It was not there. As a working definition, consider it said.
I too prefer the positive remainder definition. However, as
Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's the way it is".
Programming around that fact can be done trivially & portably.

	Nuff Said,

		jim		cottrell@nbs
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