On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

>> a) fix it (it must be something really simple and stupid)
>
> Or complicated an interesting.
>
> According to three random calculators I tried, -2 mod 12 is 10, which is
> clearly the assumption the person writing this code made.
>
> According to C++, -2 % 12 is -2.

I did some googling and modulo calculations with negative numbers are a 
complicated subject in C++.

for example read this

http://lessonsincoding.blogspot.nl/2012/03/modulus-with-negative-numbers-in-c-c.html

I am glad I am not in a position that I need to care about it.

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MT

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