% operator with negatives

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Dec12.185714.7169 at mp.cs.niu.edu> t901908 at mp.cs.niu.edu (Joe Adamo) writes:
>I know this may sound silly, but what is the effect of using the 
>% (mod) operator with negatives?  I can't seem to find any info on it.

If you're asking the obvious question -- "what's the sign of the remainder?",
i.e. "which way does the rounding of the quotient go?" -- there is no
portable answer.  It's implementation-specific.
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