From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rhm
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: What is the definition of integer division?
Article-I.D.: alice.922
Posted: Fri Sep 17 06:56:13 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 08:33:12 1982
References: ihuxv.325

The aark definition of integer division is incorrect.
The rule to remember is that the remainder has the same sign as the
dividend.  In aark' terminology, "n" and "r" have the same sign.
This is certainly not a C compiler definition, though there are places
where the compiler must know about it.