From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2002-12-28T13:15:11+09:00
Subject: Re: 1210 / 100 = 12? what?

I think I see the usefulness.  For speed and accuracy one would scale 
dollars and cents to cents, but where you needed to work with the form 
$5.95, probably in displaying a string version of the price, you would 
use the modulus operator to give you the cents portion.  Thank you.

On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 10:59 PM, Mark Probert wrote:

>
> [snip]
>
> The other part of your question, the part about remainders, deals with 
> scaling.
> If I do:
>
>  irb: 1210 / 100    # 12
>  irb: 1210 % 100    # 10   (scaled: 10 / 100)
>
> So, if I was working in dollars and cents (scaled to cents), then the 
> modulus
> returns me the working number of cents.
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
>
>
> -mark
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