Re: Rounding with Div and Mod operators

sofkam@rpi.edu (Michael D. Sofka)
20 May 1999 01:46:37 -0400

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From: sofkam@rpi.edu (Michael D. Sofka)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 May 1999 01:46:37 -0400
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
References: 99-05-039 99-05-046
Keywords: arithmetic

Norman Ramsey <nr@labrador.cs.virginia.edu> writes:
> Some years ago, Knuth wrote a short screed arguing why round toward
> minus infinity is better than round towards zero. ...


It's in Concrete Mathematics, Ronald L. Graham and Donald E. Knuth
and Oren Patashnik, Addison-Wesley, 1989.


Mike
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