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Modula-3 apparently specifies integer division as rounding down.<br>http://www.modula3.com/cm3/doc/reference/arithmetic.html<br><br>C used to leave it unspecified. So it could be fast.<br>Fortran rounded to zero.<br>C's ldiv function rounds to zero.<br>C now rounds to zero with C99.<br> The rationale was that nobody using Fortran seemed to mind.<br>Java apparently rounds toward zero.<br>C# apparently rounds toward zero.<br><br><br>I'm assuming we are stuck being different here?<br><br> - Jay<br><br> </body>
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