[erlang-questions] Flooring integer division in Erlang?

[Igor Ribeiro Sucupira]

Are you just in need of some (any) high-level implementation? Or
you're after some really efficient operator?

Igor.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Dimitry Golubovsky
<golubovsky@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Is there any Erlang library around that contains an integer division
>  function that rounds negative quotient down (towards negative
>  infunity, flooring division)?
>
>  I am trying to implement Haskell-style division which for
>
>  (-5) `div` (3) yields -2
>
>  while Erlang's (-5) div (3) yields -1
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  PS The Erlang specification (rather old, of 1999
>  http://www.erlang.org/download/erl_spec47.ps.gz), mentions on page 15
>  that at some moment, operations // and mod were added, which round to
>  negative infinity (as oposite to div and rem). Were these ever
>  implemented?
>
>  --
>  Dimitry Golubovsky
>
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