From: awnbreel AT panix DOT com (Michael R Weholt)
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Subject: Re: modulus operation with floats requires emulator?
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 97 02:35:55 GMT
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In article <5brctb$dap AT lyra DOT csx DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>,
      gpt20 AT thor DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (G.P. Tootell) wrote:

>well it's right, they are invalid operands :) you can't use % to modulus
>floating point numbers. there may be a function in the math.h library 
>that lets you do modulus but i don't know it offhand sorry. you could 
>try looking at math.h however

        Bill Lanam tells me via email (for which I thank him) that 
"'%' only works with integers" but that I could use the function 
'fmod' which "takes two arguments and returns the remainder."

Michael R Weholt
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