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drem

Despite the fact that division by zero may occur, evaluation of a drem instruction never throws a runtime exception. Overflow, underflow, or loss of precision cannot occur.

Notes
The IEEE 754 remainder operation may be computed by the Java library routine Math.IEEEremainder.


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