From: "Mr. Herr" <misterherr@freenet.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] behaviour of mod
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:06:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BC2059.7070603@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54BBFFF7.6030106@mehnert.org>
On 18.01.2015 19:48, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
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> Hi,
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> is the behaviour of modulo arithmetics intentional:
> -5 mod 4 = -1 ?
>
> While this reflects the C behaviour, my expectation was to always have
> a positive result:
> -5 mod 4 = 3
>
> Any hints?
As I understand it, there is not one true solution, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation ,
and the different programming languages handle it very differently.
/Str
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-18 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-18 18:48 Hannes Mehnert
2015-01-18 19:28 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-01-18 21:06 ` Mr. Herr [this message]
2015-01-19 10:59 ` Stephen Dolan
2015-01-20 21:57 ` Yaron Minsky
2015-01-20 21:57 ` Yaron Minsky
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