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In article <Efc#2s@cs.psu.edu> callahan@cs.psu.edu (Paul B. Callahan) writes:
> Thus, we define
>                  m div n = floor(m/n)
>                  m mod n = m - n*(m div n) 
[...]
> Another nice thing about this definition is that m and n need not be
> integers. In fact, if n is 2*pi and and m is some arbitrary real,
> then we can use this formula to force an angle into the interval [0,2*pi).
And you can get the fractional part of m with
		   m mod 1

For an example of a language that adopts this approach (and gets mod
right :-), see ABC, recently posted to the net.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@cwi.nl
"Let us go then you and I/while the night is laid out against the sky/like a
					smear of mustard on an old pork pie"
Nice poem Tom. I have ideas for changes though, why not come over? - Ezra