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- Subject: Re: Bug modulo operator on negative numbers
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 12:52:31 -0300
> There are several variants of modulo operations,[1] and the documentation
> isn't very clear on which variant is used by Lua. [...]
The manual says (3.4.1):
Modulo is defined as the remainder of a division that rounds the
quotient towards minus infinity (floor division).
I think that defines univocally what variant Lua uses.
-- Roberto
