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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Modulus (Re: hashing function for strings)
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Dave Jones <djones@megatest.UUCP> wrote:
>I differ. The first of these, -5 div 3 == -1 is wrong.

The contrary view is that abs(a/b) != abs(-a/b) is strange.  It
depends on what you're doing.  I have no problems with either stance.
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