[Edu-sig] Rational Division

[Gerrit Holl]

Frank Stajano wrote on 950046327:
> At 2000-02-08 15:21 +0100, Gerrit Holl wrote:
> >2/3 is 0 rest 1. That's what I learned when I was 7, 8 years old.
> 
> I won't question what you learnt when you were little, and indeed different 
> primary schools in different parts of the world may follow very different 
> systems; but at mine they would have failed me in arithmetic unless I 
> upgraded that answer to 0 rest 2 ;-)

Oops!
0 rest 2, of course.

regards,
Gerrit.

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