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From: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Subject: Re: modulus operation with floats requires emulator? 
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On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Michael R Weholt wrote:
>         When I try to use the modulus operation, I can only get it to 
> work using integers, not floats.  When I try it with floats, the 
> debugger reports: "Error: invalid operands to binary %".  I get this 
  ^^^^^^^^ compiler, actually
> message even when I try including math.h, or adding the -lm link 
> option.
> 
>         Does this mean I have to get the 387 emulator and use it?

This means that the mod operator does not work on floats, with or w/o the 
emulator.  Try the function fmod.

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Peter Berdeklis
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Toronto