Re: implementing remainder (was: cs 3304)

Stephen Edwards (edwards@CS.VT.EDU)
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:53:54 -0400

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Date:         Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:53:54 -0400
From: Stephen Edwards <edwards@CS.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: implementing remainder (was: cs 3304)

> Use the Scheme numeric function "remainder" to compute the result of an
> irem command. For the above example, (remainder -13 4) returns -1.

Another clarification: since the built-in remainder function requires
integer arguments, use (remainder (round arg1) (round arg2)) to implement
irem. "round" is a built-in function that rounds to the nearest
integer.

                                -- Steve

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