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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DIV and MOD ( was: Something IBM did right )
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Date: 8 Nov 88 02:24:50 GMT
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In article <972@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
This is an issue which has been thrashed out many times over the years.
Back issues of SigPlan Notices are a good place to look.

As Every Schoolboy Knows, there are at least three sensible definitions of
integer division/remainder, all of which agree which divisor and dividend
are positive.  Common Lisp provides all three, and a fourth, also sensible.

Note that the Pascal standard does not define integer division and
remainder for non-positive divisors.