INTEGER DIVISION
There is a special operator, DIV, used when you wish to divide one integer by another (ie, you can't use / ). The following program demonstrates this,



	program INTEGER_DIVISION (output);

	var     number1, number2, number3 : integer;

	begin

	       number1 := 4;

	       number2 := 8;

	       number3 := number2 DIV number1;

	       writeln( number2:2,' divided by ',number1:2,' is ',number3:2)

	end.




MODULUS
The MOD keyword means MODULUS, ie, it returns the remainder when one number is divided by another,

	The modulus of 20 DIV 5 is 0

	The modulus of 21 DIV 5 is 1




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