[comp.lang.misc] MOD, REM, et al

JWC@IDA.LiU.SE (Jonas Wallgren) (02/24/90)

For a survey of different definitions of the operators mod and rem and things
like that, see 

	A. P. Chang
	A note on the modulo operator
	SIGPLAN Notices, April 1985, pp 19-23

	Gary A. Hill
	A note on the modulo operator in Edison
	SIGPLAN Notices, April 1987, pp 28-29
	(Contains a remark to Chang's paper)

The paper by Chang also contains a list of which definition is used in which
programming language.

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