Added negative dividend modulo example #709
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meatball133
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Mar 30, 2025
| # Error: Unhandled exception: Division by 0 (DivisionByZeroError) | ||
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| Note that unlike some other programming languages crystal is using floored division to calculate modulus (in JavaScript this would yield -1) |
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Thing here is that, javascripts % isnt modulo, it is remainder, thereby another type of calculation.
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it is using the same operator so nomater what the type of calculation is it's still confusing for some people (as it was for me)
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