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Re: How to simulate C style integer division?

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  Re: How to simulate C style integer division? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-01-22 00:58 -0500

#101993 — Re: How to simulate C style integer division?

Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> writes:
> But fails with remainder 0, as others noted.  Lesson: include corner
> cases in validation test.  Anyway, my main point about writing a clear
> spec remains true.

My validation test for this was to loop both numerator and denominator
from -5 to 5 (skipping denominator 0) to cover all cases (comparing
against the original post's unoptimized code) without having to think
about a minimal set to cover them.

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