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I have found that the same mod operation produces different results depending on what language is being used. In Python: -1 % 10 produces 9 In C it produces -1 ! Which one is the right modulo? How ...

What does modulo in the following piece of code do? from math import * 3.14 % 2 * pi How do we calculate modulo on a floating point number?

Can anyone explain how the modulo operator works in Python? I cannot understand why 3.5 % 0.1 = 0.1.

Can you please tell me how much is (-2) % 5? According to my Python interpreter is 3, but do you have a wise explanation for this? I've read that in some languages the result can be machine-dependent,...

Been looking through other answers and I still don't understand the modulo for negative numbers in python For example the answer by df x == (x/y)*y + (x%y) so it makes sense that (-2)%5 = -2 - (-2/5)...

I've noticed differing implementations of the modulus operator in Python and Java. For example, in Python: >>> print -300 % 800 >>> 500 Whereas in Java: System.out.println(-300 % ...

23 % -5 = -2 23 % 5 = 3 Can someone explain to me how I can understand this because I have an exam tomorrow. I want to say its because -5 * -5 =25 then 25 -2 = 23 which is how they get the 23. Is this ...

Why modulo operator is not working as intended in C and Java?

-14%3=? C gives me -2 and python gives me 1. I have also tried many languages, all of them are having either giving 1or -2. Then I checked again, and found out that the compilers are giving -2 and ...

How come -20 % 3 = 1? Just confused with the formulae used for negative number % positive number. (I have seen many question related in quora but still not clear with formula used)

To be clear, I understand the behavior of modulo in the following 3 scenarios. I understand why 16 % 3 = 1. I understand why -16 % 3 = 2. (This one can be tricky, I realize) I understand why 3 % 16 ...

I found this definition for modulo mod(a, n) = a - n * floor(a / n) Doing an integer division and then multiplying it again means finding the biggest number smaller than a that is dividable by n ...

I am trying to write a list rotation function in python. I came across with the the following code : def move(p, U): q = [] for i in range(0,len(p)): q.append(p[(i-U)%len(p)]) return q This ...

I am familiar with the usual mod result but not for negative numbers. What is the logic?

So my understanding of the modulus operator is that it returns the remainder of the division, after dividing the dividend with a divisor. and of course, this dividend and divisor could be either an ...