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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: Re: About conversions
Date: 2000/11/23
Date: 2000-11-23T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tgpujmlvr6.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E13yu3q-0006pN-00@pc1.spick.nowhdus

Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann) writes:

> On 23-Nov-00 Christoph Grein wrote:

> >  There's a common rule: ("Punkt vor Strich" in German) multiplication
> > (* / mod 
> > rem) before addition (+ -), thus this is
> >  
> >       -14 mod 5 = -2**2
> > 
> > You wouldn't fall into the latter trap, would you?
> > 
> > (Hope I'm correct, did not look it up in ARM :-)
> 
> Sorry, but "mod x" always delivers values between 0 and x (x excluded).
> So the result is 1 and not -4.

-14 mod 5 is an unary_adding_operator followed by a term, consisting
of an integer literal, a multiplying_operator and an integer literal.
So Christoph is right. ;-)




  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-23  6:21 About conversions Christoph Grein
2000-11-23  0:00 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-23  0:00   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-11-23  0:00     ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2000-11-28  2:20   ` Robert Dewar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-24  0:00 Christoph Grein
2000-11-28  1:33 ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20  0:00 Sandro Binetti
2000-11-20  0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-11-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-20  0:00     ` Stephen Leake
2000-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00         ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-21  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22  3:27               ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2000-11-22  4:54               ` Robert Dewar
2000-11-22  0:00                 ` Ted Dennison
2000-11-22  0:00                 ` Wes Groleau
2000-11-22  0:00         ` Tristan Gingold
2000-11-24  0:00         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-24  0:00       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-11-21  2:57     ` DuckE
2000-11-21  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
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