commit 52e017b923f37eb749a619329b3ac2874d53245e parent 890c23fff2ffa01b50c017798aa677c404ea9098 Author: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 10:16:16 +0200 zdiv.3: rationale for truncated division Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> Diffstat:
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diff --git a/man/zdiv.3 b/man/zdiv.3 @@ -25,6 +25,14 @@ gets It is safe to call .B zdiv with non-unique parameters. +.SH RATIONALE +.B zdiv +rounds toward zero because this is what you expect +from the C programming language and is most often +what you want to do when rounding downwards. Note +however, this is not the same things as floored +division which is used in some programming languages +and some libraries. .SH SEE ALSO .BR zdivmod (3), .BR zstr (3),