Divide Int to Int and return Int

Question

I need a function which gets two Ints (a and b) and returns A/B as Int. I am sure that A/B will always be an integer.

Here is my solution:

myDiv :: Int -> Int -> Int
myDiv a b = 
      let x = fromIntegral a
          y = fromIntegral b
      in truncate (x / y)

But want to find more simpler solution. Something like this:

myDiv :: Int -> Int -> Int
myDiv a b = a / b

How can I divide Int to Int and get Int ?

Pointy · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-05 13:36:13Z

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Why not just use quot?

quot a b

is the integer quotient of integers a and b truncated towards zero.

answered Dec 5, 2010 at 13:36

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user395760 Over a year ago

Or a `quot` b for the infix lovers (wow, you can actually escape backticks insice backticks with backslash?).

Antal Spector-Zabusky Over a year ago

Also a `div` b; if I remember correctly, quot truncates (like demas wanted), and div rounds towards zero. So (-3) `quot` 4 == 0, and (-3) `div` 4 == -1.

luqui Over a year ago

+1 for div. More mathematically well-behaved, quot is a bitch when there are negative numbers around.

MuffinTheMan Over a year ago

This was a life-saver for me. I was wrestling with fromIntegral (ceiling (int1 / int2)) and other things--none of which gave me back an Int, but this one did.

Lacuno Over a year ago

div rounds towards negative inifinity, not zero.

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Jacob Stewart · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-08 12:41:22Z

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Here's what I did to make my own:

quot' a b
         | a<b = 0  -- base case
         | otherwise = 1 + quot' a-b b

edited Jun 8, 2019 at 12:41

answered Feb 9, 2018 at 21:59

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Ruud Helderman Over a year ago

Nice as an exercise, but useless in production. On large numbers it is slow (linear time) and has a high memory footprint (not tail-recursive). For negative numbers, it is either wrong (a<0) or never ends (b<0).

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