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From: cabacon@midway.uchicago.edu (Charles Bacon)
Subject: Re: 10 Reasons Why Scheme is Better Than C/C++
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Blatant snips of authorship:
>   +---------------
>   | No, the integer division of 1/3 is 0.  Period.  Claiming this correct
>   | result as a language defect is foolish.  
>   +---------------
>
>   The language defect is C++'s (and C's before it). As we were all taught
>   in grade school, 1 divided by 3 is 1/3 (one third). And that's what you
>   get in Scheme... which includes has rational numbers.
>
>Actually, 1/3 is 2.  No, I am not kidding, I am just doing arithmetic
>in Z_5 -- the (finite) field you get by taking the integers mod 5.

	I think this has been the most correct post so far (but then
again, I study math).  I personally think that the integer division of
1/3 should be an error, since 1/3 doesn't exist.  This probably isn't
the most useful interpretation for computer programming, but then
again, we've strayed from talking about that.
	I'd also like to add that, quibbles aside, I thought the 10
reasons were pretty funny.  That seems to have been lost in the
shuffle.
