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From: Hannes Mehnert <hannes@mehnert.org>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] behaviour of mod
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:48:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BBFFF7.6030106@mehnert.org> (raw)

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Hi,

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?

hannes
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next             reply	other threads:[~2015-01-18 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-18 18:48 Hannes Mehnert [this message]
2015-01-18 19:28 ` Gabriel Scherer
2015-01-18 21:06 ` Mr. Herr
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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