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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-05-01 10:16:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-05-01 10:16:16 +0200 |
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zdiv.3: rationale for truncated division
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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@@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ gets It is safe to call .B zdiv with non-unique parameters. +.SH RATIONALE +.B zdiv +rounds toward zero because this is what you expect +from the C programming language and is most often +what you want to do when rounding downwards. Note +however, this is not the same things as floored +division which is used in some programming languages +and some libraries. .SH SEE ALSO .BR zdivmod (3), .BR zstr (3), |