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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:53:38 +1100
Subject: Re: % is not an operator [was Re: Verbose and flexible args and kwargs syntax]
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:47 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> `quot` is integer division truncated toward zero, while the result of
> `div` is truncated toward negative infinity.

All these problems just because of negative numbers. They ought never
to have been invented.

At least nobody rounds toward positive infinity... oh wait, that's legal too.

ChrisA