On 11.08.2012 18:13, bearophile wrote:
David:
Thanks! I thought modulo should alawys yield the same ... seems like I
was wrong ;)
It's C design that's wrong.
And it's the processor design that makes it inefficient to correct it
nowadays.
Python's definition of modulo is far more useful than C's. Implemented
in machine code, however, it takes several additional commands because
the integer division is hardwired to the C definition. I guess that
hardware integer division in processors became popular only when C was
already widely in use.
