From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T06:13:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14814] Re: Integer division oddness


> " My father pointed out this oddity.
> " Getting -2 seems really wrong to me.  I looked at the
> In partial answer to my own post, I just found this
> link: http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~bdenckla/thesis/texts/htthe/node13.html
> It still seems wrong to me.  Which is right? -1 or -2?
> I guess it boils down to whether or not you believe that the
> modulus can be negative.

Please see [ruby-talk:3114] (
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/~poffice/mail/ruby-talk/3114
) for an explanation of why I thought Ruby 1.6 should return -2 when Ruby
1.4 did return -1. 

matju