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Re: question regarding % operator.

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: question regarding % operator.
Date 2012-03-12 10:15 -0400
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On 03/12/2012 10:02 AM, somenath wrote:
> On Mar 12, 5:23 pm, Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
...
>> Division must now "round toward zero," always.  Nowadays, -7 / 3
...
> So in case of 7/3 there also exist choices. It can be either 2 or 3.
> But in C it is 2. So does it mean the choice was made to round toward
> zero?

Well, yes - that is precisely what he said.

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question regarding % operator. somenath <pal_somenath@emc.com> - 2012-03-11 20:17 -0700
  Re: question regarding % operator. gordonb.ddi19@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-03-12 02:27 -0500
  Re: question regarding % operator. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-03-12 08:23 -0400
    Re: question regarding % operator. somenath <pal_somenath@emc.com> - 2012-03-12 07:02 -0700
      Re: question regarding % operator. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-12 10:15 -0400
        Re: question regarding % operator. Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 07:27 -0700
          Re: question regarding % operator. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-12 11:04 -0400
            Re: question regarding % operator. somenath <pal_somenath@emc.com> - 2012-03-12 08:43 -0700
              Re: question regarding % operator. Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-12 11:04 -0500
        Re: question regarding % operator. Fred K <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 07:24 -0700
          Re: question regarding % operator. James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-03-12 11:24 -0400
      Re: question regarding % operator. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-03-12 20:17 -0400
        Re: question regarding % operator. Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-13 16:35 -0700

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