MOD function does not work! So be warned!

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Apr 5 19:31:01 EST 2002


On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 10:00 AM, Rob Cozens wrote:

> I think Xtalk should follow normal programming convent and have 
> mod reject non-integer values.

The definition from Knuth's _Fundamental Algorithms_ is this:

x mod y = x - y * floor( x/y ) if y is not 0
x mod 0 = x
where x and y are real numbers

(All programmers over 40 are required to give a reverent "Ahhh" at 
the mention of this work.)

Dar Scott





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