Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why do most C compilers poxily round towards zero ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.161337.13581@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct9.230928.27552@arp.anu.oz.au> <XTB6WKB@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 90 16:13:37 GMT

In article <XTB6WKB@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> One of the most frustrating things about using floating point in C is the
>> poxy way rounds floating point numbers towards zero instead of -infinity.
>
>The same problem exists with the modulus operator. Mathematically, the
>modulus operator ...

C has no modulus operator.  `%' is documented in both K&R and ANSI C as
the remainder operator.
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