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Mar 27, 2017 at 14:26 comment added Julian Wolf @Fatalize, a lot of the same work is required to compute quotients as is required to compute remainders. If both results are to be used, a properly-engineered quotRem builtin can save significant time over calling quot and rem separately.
Mar 27, 2017 at 13:11 comment added Martin Ender @Fatalize Is it? I find divmod built-ins quite useful, and Mathematica is by far not the only language to have one.
Mar 27, 2017 at 13:10 history edited Martin Ender CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 27, 2017 at 13:08 comment added Fatalize You know it's bad when you language creates built-ins that simply combines built-ins…
Mar 27, 2017 at 12:50 history answered Martin Ender CC BY-SA 3.0