On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 8:30 PM MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > Wikipedia describes Euclidean division. > > Basically, the modulo is non-negative: > > a == b * q + r where 0 <= r < abs(b)
That convention in the Wikipedia article dates back to a 2004 edit by an anonymous (IP) editor. The only reference in that version was to a course handout that only considered positive denominators. There's nothing wrong with the convention, but I'm suspicious of the idea that it's a widespread standard of some sort. I've never heard of it before. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/MG7J6KWWBWZPMWVZYSMAXF4WVG2WL42A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
