On 31/08/11 20:35, Lisi wrote:
?? If either n or x or both were 0, and % were the same thing as *, the
statement would be true, but from the context I don't think that % does mean
the same as *, because * appears very soon after in the same fragment of
code.
It's the remainder operator:
IF N MOD X = 0
in BASIC
It's explained in the Simple Sequences topic of my tutorial and
mentioned again in the Raw Materials topic under integers.
The use of % as the operator goes back to C. Many of Python's
operators are just inherited directly from C.
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Alan G
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