"Thomas Malik" <340083143317-0001 at t-online.de> writes: > 2. promoting integer divisions to float sounds quite stupid to me: > (x/y) * y + x % y == x should always hold true in any sane language No problem. For consistency, x % y will invariably yield 0 :-). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard