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At 03:36 PM 4/22/05 +0100, Paul Curtis wrote:

>Robert et al,
>
> > At 02:18 PM 4/22/05 +0000, arhodes19044 wrote:
> > >I see the modulo function for floats, but is there an
> > integer version
> > >of modulo?  I did not see that.
> >
> > %
>
>% is indeed the integer modulus (remainder after division) operator, but
>implementations are allowed to implement this using either symmertic or
>floored division.  This is only a problem if you use '%' with integer
>operands which could possibly be negative.  In that case, two C
>implementations could produce different results on the SAME processor.

Point taken, although I haven't had an issue with it.  OTOH I've never had 
a need to take the modulus of a negative number.

Robert

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