Understanding The Modulus Operator % - Stack Overflow
Jul 8, 2013 · % is called the modulo operation. For instance, 9 divided by 4 equals 2 but it remains 1. Here, 9 / 4 = 2 and 9 % 4 = 1. In your example: 5 divided by 7 gives 0 but it remains 5 (5 % …
How does the % operator (modulo, remainder) work?
Oct 2, 2024 · You can think of the modulus operator as giving you a remainder. count % 6 divides 6 out of count as many times as it can and gives you a remainder from 0 to 5 (These are all …
Understanding the result of modulo operator: - Stack Overflow
Jul 22, 2016 · Trying to understand some results in R with x modulo y I found this page. Then trying to explain to myself some "quirky" results I wrote this R script below. I had read that the …
What is the result of % (modulo operator / percent sign) in Python?
Jun 14, 2024 · The % (modulo) operator yields the remainder from the division of the first argument by the second. The numeric arguments are first converted to a common type. 3 + 2 …
What does the `%` (percent) operator mean? - Stack Overflow
Oct 2, 2024 · Note that the result of the % operator is equal to x – (x / y) * y and that if y is zero, a DivideByZeroException is thrown. If x and y are non-integer values x % y is computed as x – n …
Modulo operator in Python - Stack Overflow
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Bitwise and in place of modulus operator - Stack Overflow
Jun 19, 2010 · Generally speaking, only modulo powers of base b can "easily" be done with base b representation of numbers. In base 10, for example, for non-negative N, N mod 10^k is just …
Implementing the modulo operator as a function in C
Apr 18, 2010 · "Without using the operator" aka, do not use the % operator, aka your answer uses the modulo operator, and therefore you didn't answer his question, in fact it's kinda smug... – …
Is it better to avoid using the mod operator when possible?
Mar 24, 2013 · In addition to being dependent upon hardware, "the speed of the modulo operator" is dependent upon the quality of the compiler building code for the hardware; A poor one might …
math - Lua replacement for the % operator - Stack Overflow
Mar 14, 2012 · However, Lua 5.1 also added the % operator, so if the OP is running Lua 5.0, fmod is the wrong function to use. – Simon Forsberg Commented Jan 7, 2018 at 21:01
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