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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 02:20:01 GMT
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In article <E13yu3q-0006pN-00@pc1.spick.nowhdus>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> But the Ada definition of
> integer division is different -- I don't know why -- and so we
> need "rem" instead of "mod" to make the above equation

Easy to say why, this is the way virtually all hardware
implements signed division!


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