Re: div() & ldiv() behavior?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 16:33

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In article <10989@ncar.ucar.edu> steve@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) writes:
>I know what this means when both arguments are positive, but I'm uncertain
>what this means for the other three cases.

For the normal division operator, the results are machine-specific.  For
div() and ldiv(), however, the quotient is truncated towards zero.
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