Hi Jigal, Hi Peter,
first of all: it's true, the wikipedia-site is not contradicting the
mysql-implementation, it seems i didn't read it too carefully...
The guy who "invented" the modulo-operation was G.F. Gauss in his book
"Disquisitiones Arithmeticae" which was published in 1801.
His definiti
From: "Peter Brawley"
> There are various interpretations of modulo. It's not simply
> "remainder", eg see the discussion at
> http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52343.html including this chart
> from the 1983 Ada manual:
The article at wikipedia already mentioned multiple interpretations.
There are various interpretations of modulo. It's not simply
"remainder", eg see the discussion at
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52343.html including this chart
from the 1983 Ada manual:
The relations between integer division, remainder, and modulus are
illustrated by the follo
From: "Thomas Lenherr"
Hi Thomas,
> I just wanted to know if there is a special reason for the
> mathematically incorrect implementation of the modulo-operation in mysql.
> Using a correct modulo operation on a negative number would still result
> in a positive number:
> -1 % 2 == 1 (mysql: -1)
