On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:18:52 -0400, Chadwick Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to perform modulo operations on extremely large numbers. The % > operator is giving me number out of range errors and the mod(x, y) > function simply seems to return the wrong results. Also, my numerator > is in the format of a quoted string, which the mod function can't take.
I tried some large values and seem to be getting reasonable results. I did get some negative remainders, but I didn't find anything in the mod documentation on whether or not these were allowed. For small values I always got positive remainders so it isn't consistantly return the remainder closest to zero. My guess is that it has to do rounding when dividing numerics. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
