At 12:16 PM 2/21/02 -0500, I wrote:

>There's also an issue if the number is negative.

OK, I see that you're using C. In that case you should use /2 if the
number is signed. Shifting (>>1) should be avoided because the results
are officially "implementation defined", thus it is non-portable code.

See: ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E) 6.5.4  (the current C standard)

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