Q: Feature Wish: "%" Extension

Rainer Deyke root at rainerdeyke.com
Tue Nov 6 17:54:50 EST 2001


"John Roth" <johnroth at ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:tugphsjop81s04 at news.supernews.com...
> Integer division is not an inverse of integer multiplication, therefore
> the proposed counterexample fails.

What do you mean?  '(a * b) / b' equals 'a' for all integers 'a' and 'b'
(assuming 'a * b' evaluates without overflow), except when 'b' equals 0.


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