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I'm trying to understand how the %% operator works in R:
10 %% 10 # 0
20 %% 10 # 0
I'm not sure about these two results:
10 %% 20 # 10
2 %% 8 # 2
Can you help me understand the last two results? I'm a little confused.
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The modulus operator is added in the arithmetic operators in C, and it works between two available operands. It divides the given numerator by the denominator to find a result. In simpler words, it produces a remainder for the integer division. Thus, the remainder is also always an integer number only.
3) modulus operator is not just applicable to integral types e.g. byte, short, int, long but also to floating-point types like float and double. 4) You can also use the remainder operator to check if a number is even or odd, or if a year is leap year.
Enter the Modulo For example, “5 mod 3 = 2” which means 2 is the remainder when you divide 5 by 3. Converting everyday terms to math, an “even number” is one where it's “0 mod 2” — that is, it has a remainder of 0 when divided by 2. An odd number is “1 mod 2” (has remainder 1). Why's this cool?
Nothing wrong:
10 = 1 * 10 + 0
20 = 2 * 10 + 0
10 = 0 * 20 + 10
2 = 0 * 8 + 2
The modulo is the number after +.
In general, for two numbers a and b, there is
a = floor(a / b) * b + (a %% b)
Let's write a toy function:
foo <- function(a,b) c(quotient = floor(a / b), modulo = a %% b)
foo(10, 10)
#quotient modulo
# 1 0
foo(20, 10)
#quotient modulo
# 2 0
foo(10, 20)
#quotient modulo
# 0 10
foo(2, 8)
#quotient modulo
# 0 2
Update: Instead of using floor(a / b) to get quotient, we can also use a %/% b.
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I'll offer another explanation. Take this problem:
20 %% 10 = 0
Instead of evaluating the modulo, start with simple divison:
20 / 10 = 2
As you know, the answer "2" means that it takes two sets of 10 to get 20. Note that we can also write the answer this way with the decimal, 2.0.
The decimal is important. When the decimal is .0, we have no remainder. We have complete sets. If division yields a 0 decimal, then the modulo evaluates to zero.
Now consider this:
11/3 = 3.667
That tail part, the 0.667, is the portion of a set of 3 that remains after we form all full sets of 3 that we can. On the left side of the decimal, we show:
#Splitting the answer into its components - 3 full sets, 0.667 partial sets
3.0 + 0.667 = 3.667
So if we want to know the actual remaining quantity, we can multiply 0.667 by the divisor, 3:
0.667 * 3 = 2
This is the remainder. It is the quantity that remains after all full sets of 3 are formed. It's the same result we get using modulo:
11 %% 3 = 2
The same applies here. Given this problem,
10 %% 20 = 10
we can divide normally and get:
10 / 20 = 0.5
Reading this out, we have 0 full groups of 20 (left side); we only have half a set, 0.5, of 20.
0.5 * 20 = 10
This is equivalent to:
10 %% 20 = 10
10 is thus the remainder. It's the gap between the 10 we have and the 10 we need to get to 20.
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