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[ID 19991022.018] Wacky modulus behaviour

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From:
Nathan Torkington
Date:
October 22, 1999 20:37
Subject:
[ID 19991022.018] Wacky modulus behaviour
Message ID:
14353.11585.73347.461276@localhost.frii.com
perl -le 'print time % -60'
perl -le '$x = time; print $x % -60'
perl -le '$x = time; $y = $x % -60; print $y'

Until you do it in separate steps, 'time % -60' is never negative.
This smells like a spurious NV conversion.  Somewhere.

Nat

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