[PD] division with remainder

[geiger]

On Mon, 15 May 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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].

AFAIK there is no ANSI C or ISO math mod function, just a % operator,
which is currently doing the same.

Guenter

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