What is the name of that function...

[Bob Sneidar]

Why, minus nine of course! 

Bob


On Sep 18, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Tereza Snyder wrote:


On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Saturday, September 18, 2010, 3:23:22 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hmmmph! it's an OPERATOR not a function! And it doesn't work with negative numbers*!
> 
> mod is also an operator. And negative numbers? I wouldn't expect those
> to work - it work that way for word problems with either operator:
> 
> If Johnny owes nine dollars and gives five of those dollars he doesn't
> have to Fred, how many does he have left over?