hi i am a mathemagician and vaguely experienced programmer of many years and i still get confused about which goes where whenever i use the modulo operator (%). i'm always dropping into the console or REPL to remind myself.
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@omarieclaire was just asking this to me and I had no idea how negatives work with modulo! -
Basically there are two reasonable interpretations of a%b for negative a, though I always want the one which Java doesn't use, and I've forgotten why the one it does use is reasonable.
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