Re: [pure-lang-users] Numeric Arguments

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 01:29 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:

> Ok, do you have definitions of div and mod for all other cases? Note
> that then we also need definitions for the rational and complex numbers
> in math.pure.
> 
> I must admit that I never gave this much thought. Pure inherited div and
> mod from Q which inherited them from Pascal which in turn inherited them
> (I guess) from Algol 60. I'm not against extending them in a reasonable
> manner. :)

A reasonable manner suggests x = (x mod N) + (x div N) * N. I didn't
make this up.

By the way, I noticed my MzScheme only accepts integers for both the
modulo and remainder functions.

e.r.