division by 7 efficiently ???

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Thu Feb 1 01:18:21 EST 2007


"Paddy" <paddy3118 at netscape.net> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2:42 am, krypto.wiz... at gmail.com wrote:
> > How to divide a number by 7 efficiently without using - or / operator.
>
> >>> int.__div__(14,2)
> 7
> >>>
>
> Not a minus or division operator in sight ;-)

I salute you, sir. That's the perfect answer to the boneheaded
constraints of the problem :-)

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