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by delinka 2577 days ago
So dividing by number of months, which is not dividing by an amount of money.
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var balance = 0

var lastPayment = 0

var remainingPaymentsAtThisRate = balance/lastPayment

// divide by zero error

Surely that doesn't account for interest?
My goal with this 3-line pseudocode snippet was not to reproduce a banking loan administration system in its entirety, but just to show a place where it could make sense to divide by currency.