From 52e017b923f37eb749a619329b3ac2874d53245e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mattias Andrée Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 10:16:16 +0200 Subject: zdiv.3: rationale for truncated division MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée --- man/zdiv.3 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/zdiv.3 b/man/zdiv.3 index 869e384..99faf53 100644 --- a/man/zdiv.3 +++ b/man/zdiv.3 @@ -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), -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2