phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) (09/11/84)
Pascal doesn't define its modulus operator for negative 'divisors'.
To quote from ANSI/IEEE 770X3.97-1983 (the Pascal Standard), p. 73:
A term of the form i mod j shall be an error
if j is zero or negative,
otherwise the value of i mod j shall be that value of (i-(k*j))
for integral k such that 0 <= i mod j < j.
NOTE: Only for i >= 0 and j > 0 does the relation
(i div j) * j + i mod j = i hold.
-- Clay Phipps
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