[Haskell-cafe] C's fmod in Haskell

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Odd place it is, indeed!

QUOTE: "Data.Fixed... DESCRIPTION... This module defines a Fixed 
<file:///D:/app/ghc-6.6.1/doc/html/libraries/base/Fixed.html> type for 
fixed-precision arithmetic...*This module also contains generalisations 
of div, mod, and divmod to work with any Real instance.*"

Thanks a lot. I wouldn't have found that myself ;-)

Jules Bean wrote:
> Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
>> Maybe this is a stupid question, but I don't find something similar 
>> in Haskell.
>>
>> I find mod and rem, which work on integers. But I'm looking for a 
>> function similar to C's fmod.
>>
>> Of course I can write it myself, but I guess it must already exist 
>> under a different name?
>
> There's one in Data.Fixed called mod'
>
> Yes, that is an odd place for it :)
>
> Jules
>
>

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