Integer division

[Matthew P. Wiener]

In article <1671 at utah-gr.UUCP> thomas at utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) writes:
>At least C calls it '%', and not 'MOD', as in Pascal.  Unless someone
>tells you that % means MOD, you have some small chance of realizing that
>it might not do exactly what you want.

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>I would still rather have (-1)/1000000000000 = 0, not -1.

What about (-999999999999)/1000000000000 ?
What about (+999999999999)/1000000000000 ?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720