"Bob Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> Matt: I'm not sure about your pseudocode, but have you tried to >> accomplish this with the modulus operator? >> It provides the remainder of integer division > No, it provides the modulus, and applies to float not just integer!.
While modulus is technically correct I prefer to use the term modulo since modulus can also be used to mean the magnitude or absolute value of a number. i.e. its true to say that abs(-7) provides the modulus of -7 (i.e. 7) which is different to the modulo - which is a binary operator... But one of the nice things about Python is that, whatever we call it, Python does it correctly! :-) Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
