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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 18:36:49 -0400
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Dan Nagle wrote:
> The Fortran 95 standard has two intrinsic functions,
> mod() and modulo(), which have subtly different definitions.
> 
> I wonder which one the C++ committee thought they were modeling?

They thought they were modelling Fortran integer *division*,
which they say rounds toward zero.