Negative division bug?

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Yanowitz
Hello: Just wondering if this is a bug, is this as designed, or do I have to import math or something to make it correct: I was just screwing around. and found: -1/100 -1 Shouldn't it be zero? 1/100 returns 0 but -1/ANY_POSITIVE_INTEGER_NUMBER returns -1 -10/3 -4 It behaves

Re: Negative division bug?

2006-08-03 Thread casevh
I was just screwing around. and found: -1/100 -1 Shouldn't it be zero? 1/100 returns 0 but -1/ANY_POSITIVE_INTEGER_NUMBER returns -1 -10/3 -4 It behaves correct for positive numbers, but for negative integers it seems to subtract one from the expected result. That is

Re: Negative division bug?

2006-08-03 Thread Carsten Haese
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 13:51, Michael Yanowitz wrote: Hello: Just wondering if this is a bug, is this as designed, or do I have to import math or something to make it correct: I was just screwing around. and found: -1/100 -1 Shouldn't it be zero? 1/100 returns 0 but