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I'm thinking in particular of how to display pagination controls, when using a language such as C# or Java.
If I have x items which I want to display in chunks of y per page, how many pages will be needed?
Here's an elegant solution:
int pageCount = (records + recordsPerPage - 1) / recordsPerPage;
Source: Number Conversion, Roland Backhouse, 2001
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