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| author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-03-01 15:59:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> | 2016-03-01 15:59:13 +0100 |
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Man pages: rationale for non-essential arithmetic functions
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
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diff --git a/man/zdivmod.3 b/man/zdivmod.3 index 683d17f..b11b8b6 100644 --- a/man/zdivmod.3 +++ b/man/zdivmod.3 @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ except it is safe to call .B zdivmod with .IR "(quotient==remainder)" . +.SH RATIONALE +Calculating the remainder requires calculating division to +be performed, and performing a division gives the remainder +for free. It is often useful to calculate both. .SH SEE ALSO .BR zstr (3), .BR zadd (3), |