[erlang-questions] Flooring integer division in Erlang?

[Dimitry Golubovsky]

Igor,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not work as needed with large
numbers. I tried similar things just like floor(A/B) (floor/1 was
found somewhere on TrapExit).

Say we want to print a factorial of 40. Each digit is obtained by
taking a quot and rem from division by 10. What I compute is
equivalent to (show . fac) in Haskell

With your function instead of div, in Haskell compiled to Erlang:

11> hserl:hslist((hserl:force(hs_test1:main()))(40)).
"815915283247897600060660666066242068688062066800"

Same in ghci:

Prelude> let fac 1 = 1; fac n = n * fac (n - 1)
Prelude> (show . fac) 40
"815915283247897734345611269596115894272000000000"

And when I use the standard div, in Haskell compiled to Erlang:

13> hserl:hslist((hserl:force(hs_test1:main()))(40)).
"815915283247897734345611269596115894272000000000"

Thanks.

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Igor Ribeiro Sucupira <igorrs@REDACTED> wrote:
> You could use, for example, the BIF trunc/1.
>  Something like this:
>
>  floorDiv(A, B) ->
>     Quotient = A / B,
>     Truncated = trunc(Quotient),
>     case Truncated > Quotient of
>         true -> Truncated - 1;
>         false -> Truncated
>     end.
>
>
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Dimitry Golubovsky

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