clojure.core/quot

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 2 Runnable: 1

([num div])

quot[ient] of dividing numerator by denominator.

Examples

by zk on 2010-07-24 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

;; (quot m n) is the value of m/n, rounded towards 0 to the nearest integer. ;; m, n need not be integers. (quot 10 3) 3 (quot 11 3) 3 (quot 12 3) 4 (quot -5.9 3) -1.0 (quot 10 -3) -3 (quot 15 0) ArithmeticException / by zero clojure.lang.Numbers.quotient (Numbers.java:1764) ;; For ClojureScript (at least v1.10.597), `num`, `div` should be integer. ;; Otherwise, it does not work correctly due to its implementation: http://cljs.github.io/api/cljs.core/quot ;; in clojure, (quot 286.3 21.2) 13.0 ;; in clojurescript (quot 286.3 21.2) 12

by shockbob on 2011-09-17 ▶

;; note that the "/" function and the quot function are not equivalent (= (/ 4 2) (quot 4 2)) true (= (/ 3 2) (quot 3 2)) false

See also

• clojure.core/rem (2)
• clojure.core/mod (3)
• clojure.core/unchecked-divide-int
• clojure.core// (2)
• clojure.math/floor-div

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