[Haskell-cafe] C's fmod in Haskell

[Thomas Conway]

On 9/24/07, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
> Unfortunately, properFraction doesn't work well with negative numbers.

This old chestnut! It's a common problem in practice. As I recall, the
behaviour of C's % operator allows implementations to yield either
behaviour.  I just checked ISO 9899:1999 which defines fmod. It
specifies that the result of fmod(x,y) should have the same sign as x.
Interesting.

cheers,
T.
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