[comp.lang.misc] modulo/remainder: it's all division

jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) (09/09/90)

In article <2108@bnlux0.bnl.gov> thomas@max.UUCP (Richard A. Thomas) writes:
>   Hewlett Packard's Rocky Mountain Basic gives you a choice.  It has both a
>MOD and a MODULO.

Yeah, my HP-71's `Minimal' Basic has not one but three of the functions:

MOD(X,Y) `modulus': same sign as Y, quotient is the more negative one
RMD(X,Y) `remainder': same sign as X; the quotient is closer to zero
RED(X,Y) `reduction': the nearest quotient, the even one if halfway between