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Subject: ANS TC for Division
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Date: 8 Aug 90 01:58:46 GMT
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Category 18,  Topic 84
Message 8         Mon Aug 06, 1990
D.RUFFER [Dennis]            at 22:22 EDT
 
Re: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)

 > What does ANSI Forth say about the modulus operator? It should be
 > defined to be consistent with the division operator, no?

MOD                                             CORE
        (n1 n2 -- n3)
        Divide n1 by n2, giving the single-precision remainder n3.
        An exception exists if n2 is zero.  If either argument lies
        outside the range of a single-precision non-negative integer
        the result is implementation-defined. [656]

Additionally, in the rational for FM/MOD, you have this example:

        : _MOD ( n1 n2 -- n3)   /_MOD DROP ;

A similar example is in the rational box for SM/MOD.

DaR
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