Re: -1%N = -1

Maarten Kronenburg wrote:
> The remainder has the sign of the dividend,
> the modulo has the sign of the divisor
> (if not zero).

Are these commonly accepted definitions?

Remainder seems to allow both cases, and modulo is actually the name
of the operation, not the result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remainder
"[T]here are two possible choices for the remainder [... and]
for the quotient."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo
"a modulo n is the remainder after numerical division of a by n,
under certain constraints."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation
"In computing, the _modulo_ operation finds the _remainder_
of division of one number by another."
(emphasis mine)

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