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From: Bogdan Cristea <bogdan.cristea@upmc.fr>
Subject: Re: duplicated modulo
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:30:46 +0200
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To: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
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On Friday, April 01, 2011 12:19:16 pm you wrote:
> Sure. But I fail to see where between
> 
> a %= b;
> a %= b;
> 
> and
> 
> a = (a % b) % b;
> 
> and
> 
> a %= b;
> 
> would be a difference?

That is basic math. Once you have obtained the remainder of the division by b, 
taking the second time the remainder makes no sense.

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Bogdan Cristea