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From: djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DIV and MOD ( was: Something IBM di
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Date: 10 Nov 88 05:01:41 GMT
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From article <225800089@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, by mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:

[ Description of one's complement arithmetic omited. }

> Perhaps you are unfamiliar with this
> relatively common method. On some machines -1 >> 1 == -1, but not
> all machines - and not necessarily in ANSI C.
> 
> 
> :-)   :-)   :-)


Nah.  I'm familiar with it.  I just thought maybe if I closed
my eyes, it would go away, along with all those communist-inspired
negative remainders.

Here.  Have a smiley on me: :-)


		Dave J.