On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Iammars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow. That was probably the worst land for me to get. I had 2 Digit Ranches > > (4) and a subtraction Mill. 0 is the only number I can make! > > It would take two weeks, but you could make a 0 and then subtract 4 > from it to get 6.
There seems to be some disagreement in the literature (and apparently in C machine-dependent differing behavior of the % operator) about how to take the modulus of a negative number. There seem to be equally good arguments that ((0-4) % 10) = 6 or 4.
