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<h2 style="color:#000066">''aa '''mod '''''b''</h2>
<h2 style="color:#000066">''a '''mod '''''b''</h2>





Revision as of 18:37, 22 April 2006


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a mod b


Operand types:

a: Number

b: Number

Type of returned value:

Number

Description:

Remainder of a divided by b.

Note: Remainer is calculated in real domain.


Example:

_rem = 3 mod 2 ...... Result is 1


Comments

You can use mod to round a decimal number down to the nearest whole number.

For example:

If you wanted to use the command random to generate a whole number between 0 and 6, you could put this in a script:-

_rand = random 6

_num = _rand - (_rand mod 1)