Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent

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Subject: Re: integer exponentiation with negative exponent
From: Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 17:26:04 -0400

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

Euclid?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_division

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