Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > FIrst of all, how is the % symbol (as in 70%6=4) called in English? > > The operator is usually called "mod". (The symbol is usually > called "percent".)
In Lisp, we'd say Python implements the mod function and C implements the rem (remainder) function. See also the functions floor and truncate: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node130.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
