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Comment by krzat | Hacker News Reader

Why not `x / 16`?

Integer division will give a rounded result instead of floor

Not in C..?

   (x + 15) / 16

I think they're going for the ceiling here, not the floor. Truncation of positive values should be the same as a floor function.

Yes, I wrote the example. Then realized it was different and corrected only half of it.

Yes, which is more readable and would be compiled to the same thing