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Well, I have indeed spent more time thinking about this than is probably healthy, but here are some nice edge cases to think about: - https://github.com/JuliaL
by simonbyrne 8y ago
Well, I have indeed spent more time thinking about this than is probably healthy, but here are some nice edge cases to think about:
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14826 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14826
mod(-eps(), 4.0)
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17415 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17415
fld(1.0,0.2)
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3127 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3127
mod(1.0,0.1)
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3104 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3104
mod(0.95,0.01)
I'm pretty sure there are more issues.
re: mod 2pi, typically it is most accurate to reduce to (-pi,pi) (i.e. division rounding to nearest). Also to get it accurate you need fancy range reduction algorithms, hence julia has rem2pi
https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/base/math/#Base.Math.rem2pi https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/base/math/#Base.Math.re...
- jacobolus 8y agoWithout knowing the intended use case of the code, the edge case behavior in some of these cases is pretty meaningless. Different behavior might make sense in different applications, and in many applications the choice is largely irrelevant. Whichever one you choose someone who wants the other version will have to work around it. These examples don’t really have much bearing on the general usefulness of “remainder” vs. “modulo” though.