MOD function does not work! So be warned!

[Rob Cozens]

>The someone else was me, and since another writer made a similar 
>point about my comment I should clarify that I did not make it in 
>relation to Rev (and hence the documentation makes no such 
>statement) but to the MOD function as it was initially implemented 
>(so far as I know) in the languages of 25+ or even 35+ years ago. I 
>was talking about distant antecedents rather than current usage.

David, et al:

FWIW, I just looked through my old programming manuals and found all 
three versions of Pascal (UCSD, Turbo, & Think) define mod as an 
integer operation.  The Turbo Pascal manual specifically identities 
real arguments to mod as an error.

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Rob Cozens
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