On 30 Aug 2002 at 22:50, Martijn Tonies wrote:

>
> > When you pass 1 that is an integer (no decimal point), 3 well that
> > is also
> an integer,
> > since everything is integers, it does integer math, remember
> > grade-school
> math (it's
> > getting tough it's ~25 years ago for me), 1 divided by 3 is 0, 3
> > goes into
> 1 exactly 0
> > times, with 3 remainder, since we don't care about the remainder it
> > gets
> dropped, so
> > we are left with 0, 0 times 3 is still 0. So 0 is, the right
> > answer.
> >
> > If we use 1.0 and 3.0 that's real math,
>
> Since when isn't INTEGER MATH real math?
>
> *g*
>

When I was in grade school I always wondered why they called math with a decimal
point "real" math. The term doesn't make logistical sense, then again, when does
English ever make logistical sense.....

>
> With regards,
>
> Martijn Tonies
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