[PD] division with remainder

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think this was ment for the list:

On May 15, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Sciss wrote:

> all programming languages i know of, have modulo work with floating  
> point numbers and hence spit out floating point numbers. i'd find  
> it very usefull to be able to calculate for example 7.5 mod pi =  
> 1.2168146928204 etc. ; at the moment it would return 1 which is not  
> so useful. i though all numbers in PD are floats anyways ... ?
>
> however changing the existing object is not a good idea, it will  
> certainly be not backward compatible.
>
> best, -sciss-
>
> Am 15.05.2006 um 12:51 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 May 2006, geiger wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>>> [div] ... and [mod] in that case.
>>>
>>> Some definitions of [mod] extend it to be able to use the real  
>>> numbers
>>> as first parameter. So 2.45 mod 2 would be 0.45.
>>> I think this could be a good extension to Pd's mod object, and it
>>> should also be backwards compatible to its current behaviour.
>>> The change inside the code would be trivial. Question is how many  
>>> patches
>>> depend on the truncation after the mod operation.
>>
>> I think that [mod] should probably do whatever ANSI C or ISO math  
>> stuff does, which I think it currently is doing.  Most programming  
>> languages follow these conventions, so its a good idea for Pd to  
>> as well.
>>
>> But the object you propose does sound handy, so maybe it should be  
>> a separate object, like [floatmod].
>>
>> .hc


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