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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:34:37 -0400
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Robert A Duff wrote:
 > to claim it's not a flaw seems wrong.

I didn't claim it's not a flaw, I just claimed that it wasn't
totally useless. In any case, every machine I ever worked on
has used round towards zero, but as you go on to say, when I
use %, I tend to make sure that the arguments are not negative.