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From: jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: modulo/remainder: it's all division
Keywords: modulus
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Date: 9 Sep 90 11:38:41 GMT
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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