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On May 16, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@gmx.net> wrote:

Btw., does anyone know who invented integer division as defined in C in the first place? Is it used outside of programming?

Mostly because CPUs tended to do division like that, since it “fell out” of the hardware and the number representation used.

—Tim