Thanks a lot for the explanation. Would it be possible to add a help patch to pd, something like the one attached? div, mod, and % currently default to otherbinops-help.pd but aren't included in that patch.
-Jonathan --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] div vs. / & i > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:12 PM > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > But I just noticed while scrolling in a number box > that they aren't the same when the dividend is negative. > In the source for [div], I see this before doing the > division: if (n1 < 0) n1 -= (n2-1); I feel like I'm > missing something obvious. Why does [div] behave this way? > > So that (x div y)*y + (x mod y) = x > > So div is complementary to mod. > > Also, int(x / y)*y + (x % y) = x > > So / with i is complementary to %. > > And div,mod behave the way that they do so that > (x+y) mod y = x mod y > (x+y) div y = (x div y) + 1 > > Whereas div with i and % do not, when x and x+y have > different signs. > > _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ > _____________________ ... > | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal, > Québec
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