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or the underlying hardware.

In nearly all computing systems, the quotient and the remainder of divided by satisfy the following conditions:

This still leaves a sign ambiguity if the remainder is non-zero: two possible choices for the remainder occur, one negative and the other positive; that choice determines which of the two consecutive quotients must be used to satisfy equation (1). In number theory, the positive remainder is always chosen,

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