From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
To: jsanchor@cs5.dasd.honeywell.com
Subject: Re: Integer Division
Date: 1998/08/05
Date: 1998-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vho7xr7f.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6qa43u$eip$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
>>>>> "Jay" == jsanchor <jsanchor@cs5.dasd.honeywell.com> writes:
Jay> Hi guys, I have a question. It is so simple that it seems
Jay> stupid. I was doing a simple arithmetic operation 10/3. Now, I
Jay> want the INTEGER division to return the next whole number
Jay> (i.e. 4). I know in floating_point type they have an attribute
Jay> called 'Ceiling. What about integer types? Currently, I am doing
Jay> a division operation B := A/3, & then a 'rem' operation if A rem
Jay> 3 /= 0 then B = B + 1; Is there a nicer method?
If you work with positive numbers,
B := (A + 2) / 3;
will do the job (and (A+(D-1))/D in general).
Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org
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