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I've regularly been annoyed by -1 % n being negative but I've never seen a case where the negative number is on the right. Has anyone seen this before in real c

• userbinator 8y ago
  I suspect this is why the topic is relatively obscure; situations where you have a negative divisor and need the remainder/mod are not common.
  • chii 8y ago
    > situations where you have a negative divisor and need the remainder/mod are not common. yep. But sometimes, when you have numbers that come from some external system, and you didn't check them or expect that the % operator will make it positive, you end up with this sort of problem. Such as having negative positions with CSS, or a game where you end up with negative values for coordinates.