simple math question

[John Salerno]

Dave Hansen wrote:

> Probably not the "wrong" way, just a different way, especially if you
> write C code.  

Oh, how poorly you know me! ;) I started learning C# a year ago, just 
for fun, but that's about all I know (aside from HTML and CSS). I did 
have a high school class in C++ a long, long time ago though.

Anyway, Python is my next venture, again just for fun. I guess my 
problem was like you said, I was used to truncating toward zero, not 
toward negative infinity. Knowing that that's how Python works fully 
explains my problem now.