On 5/19/09 2:44 PM, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote: > > Well then, for the equality to hold, (-1)/7 should be -1. Would you be > happy with such an outcome? >
Yep > Wikipedia gives a definition different from yours, for what it's worth: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remainder#The_case_of_general_integers > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation Well, I contend it doesn't. It says: "−42 = 9×(−5) + 3 as is usual for mathematicians" Which was my point. But as was pointed out, there are two choices, both equally valid. > > Once you decide that division truncates towards zero (as is the > long-standing tradition in C and many other languages, for better or > worse), you have no choice but to let the remainder take the sign of the > dividend. True enough. It seems Computer Science has most of the time made the opposite choice than mathematicians. I can live with that too. > > Igor Tandetnik > Jean-Denis Muys _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
