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<?php

function divideByRecursiveSubtraction($number1, $number2)
{
// initialize the quotient to an initial value 0
$quotient = 0;

// while loop
while ($number1-$number2 >= 0) {
$number1 = $number1-$number2;
$quotient = $quotient+1;
}
// return value for the function
return $quotient;
}

?>