Scott David Daniels wrote: > C, which was designed as a "high level assembly language," does not > tightly define the results of / and % for negative numbers. Instead > it defines the result for positive over positive, and constrains the > result for the others.
Not true. Here it is again: When integers are divided, the result of the / operator is the algebraic quotient with any fractional part discarded.(87) If the quotient a/b is representable, the expression (a/b)*b + a%b shall equal a. [...] 87) This is often called ‘‘truncation toward zero’’. [International Standard ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Section 6.5.5 Multiplicative operators, Paragraph 6 and footnote 87] -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list