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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Modulus
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Date: 22 Feb 90 14:39:21 GMT
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On the issue of
	-a div b = -(a div b)		[1]
versus
	a div b = floor(a/b)		[2]
I do prefer [2] over [1].  The reason I'm mostly tolerant of either
case is because I remember writing expressions like
	abs(a) div b * sgn(a)
to simulate [1], but I can't remember the context; it could probably
have been better done differently anyway.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee