Thread: Modulo

Hi everyone. I've searched around the internet for answers to this one but i could never find a conclusive or easy-enough explanation for it. What does Modulo mean? I know that it has to do with the remainder of a division but i'm not quite sure how you calculate it. If somebody could explain it to me that would be great

Originally Posted by Fohr

Hi everyone. I've searched around the internet for answers to this one but i could never find a conclusive or easy-enough explanation for it. What does Modulo mean? I know that it has to do with the remainder of a division but i'm not quite sure how you calculate it. If somebody could explain it to me that would be great

http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~erowland/modulararithmetic.html

Originally Posted by Fohr

Hi everyone. I've searched around the internet for answers to this one but i could never find a conclusive or easy-enough explanation for it. What does Modulo mean? I know that it has to do with the remainder of a division but i'm not quite sure how you calculate it. If somebody could explain it to me that would be great

Assuming that it's like programming; this is what you do:

If the first term is smaller then the answer is the first term.
Examples:
1) 98%100 = 98
2) 2%67 = 2

If the first term is larger then:
Example:
11%5 ==> 11/5 = 2.2 so you round it down to the nearest integer and then multiply that by the negative value of the second term and add that to the first term. ==> (2)(-5) + 11 = 1