Weird Objective-C Mod Behavior

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Published on 2009-06-13T04:05:36Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 21:08 UTC
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So I thought that negative numbers, when mod'ed should be put into positive space... I cant get this to happen in objective-c

I expect this:

-1 % 3 = 2
 0 % 3 = 0
 1 % 3 = 1
 2 % 3 = 2

But get this

-1 % 3 = -1
 0 % 3 = 0
 1 % 3 = 1
 2 % 3 = 2

Why is this and is there a workaround?

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