Should % ever "overflow"?
Guillaume Boucher via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 25 17:54:04 PDT 2016
On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 20:43:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Most reasonable is
>
> numerator = quotient * divisor + remainder
>
> Which means it can be negative.
Depends on the definition.
If division truncates towards negative infinity, the remainder
will always be nonegative (in case of a positive divisor).
I personally find rounding towards negative infinity the most
practical; every time I used modulo, I wanted the result to be in
the range [0, divisor). Python does it this way and I find it
very convenient.
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