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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] More Microsoft bashing
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:51:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051216045115.GC15067@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6e35c0620512152004n37c06ff5wd250424db50d874d@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:04:02PM -0800, Jack Johnson wrote:
> So, what *is* -5 MOD 3?

Well, in general, it depends.

Do you care whether the result a set or an integer?  The definitions due
to Wirth et al are the former, while the MS definition appears to be the
latter.

Regardless, all these definitions are problematic.  No where does it say
they're defined only on Z*; what if Y is 0?

	- Dan C.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-16  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-16  4:04 Jack Johnson
2005-12-16  4:51 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2005-12-16  5:02   ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  5:33     ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-16  5:38       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 10:46         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-16 13:13       ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  4:53 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-16  5:08   ` Dan Cross
2005-12-16  5:19     ` Brian L. Stuart
2005-12-16  5:27     ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 14:19     ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 15:13       ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 15:29         ` Russ Cox
2005-12-16 16:00           ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-17  0:26             ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-17  3:59               ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-16 15:33         ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 10:47   ` John Stalker
2005-12-16 14:25     ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-16 14:51       ` Gorka guardiola
2005-12-16 22:28     ` Victor Nazarov
2005-12-17 11:09 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-17 11:24   ` David Leimbach

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