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[David Goodenough]

>From article <21440 at apple.Apple.COM>, by desnoyer at Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers):
>  There is no natural divide-type operation mapping (real,real) ->
> (real,integer). The operation mentioned was either poorly defined, or
> merely consisted of:
>   convert a, b to int
>   div a,b -> int quotient, remainder
>   convert remainder to float

I disagree. I think there is nothing at all "unnatural" with doing

5.7 / 2.1 = 2 remainder 1.5,

And in some applications it can be potentially very useful (accounting for one)
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