division by 7 efficiently ???

Paddy paddy3118 at netscape.net
Thu Feb 1 00:36:18 EST 2007


On Feb 1, 2:42 am, krypto.wiz... at gmail.com wrote:
> How to divide a number by 7 efficiently without using - or / operator.
> We can use the bit operators. I was thinking about bit shift operator
> but I don't know the correct answer.

>>> int.__div__(14,2)
7
>>>

Not a minus or division operator in sight ;-)

- Paddy.




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