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HELP REM Revised by A.Sloman March 1987 <number> rem <number> -> <number> REM is an infix operator (precedence 2) which returns the remainder when one number divides another, e.g. 10 rem 3 => ** 1 10 rem -3 => ** 1 The result can be negative: -10 rem 3 => ** -1 It could be defined thus: define 2 x rem y; lvars x,y; x // y -> enddefine; Since "//" has been generalised to cope with non-integers, "rem" is also no longer restricted to integers, e.g. 99.5 rem 33.2 => ** 33.1 35_/8 rem 4 => ** 3_/8 10_+:1 rem 3 => ** 1_+:1 REM used to be synonymous with MOD, but the latter has been redefined. REM is guaranteed to produce a result with the same sign as its first argument, MOD with the same sign as its second argument. So MOD and REM can give different results for negative arguments: See HELP * MOD for details. REM has to check the types of its arguments. If you know that the arguments will be integers you can use the fast_integer version: FI_REM instead. For further details see HELP * EFFICIENCY and REF * FASTPROCS. See also REF * NUMBERS - for details of numbers and mathematical operations available in POP-11. HELP * DIV - division operator HELP * MOD - modulus operator HELP * MATH - for a summary of mathematical operations in POP-11 -----<Copyright University of Sussex 1987. All rights reserved.>-------