From: wemccaug AT prairienet DOT org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
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Subject: Re: "mod" in Pascal equivalent to %??
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In a previous article, rylan AT intekom DOT com ("Stefan Viljoen") says:

>Hi All,
>
>Am I correct in the assumption that the DJGPP (or C?) equivalent for the
>"mod" that you find in say, this line of Pascal
>
>total := whatever mod sum;
>
>is
>
>total = whatever % sum;
>
>Is this correct? Is "%" equivalent to "mod" (modulo?) If not, what is
>equivalent?
>
>Fanx!
>
 Yes, both `mod' and % should return the remainder upon integer division
 of whatever by sum. You might want to check what happens when either
 dividend or divisor is negative, and what happens when sum = 0 in both
 cases.

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