The Remainder Operator
It might be Mathematical, but you need this in order to be an effective programmer be it Java, Python or Swift. Trust me…
It is common for tutorials to assume that you know the remainder operator. But what is it, and why do we need it?
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Terminology
Dividend: The amount you want to divide up
Divisor: Is another number by which another number is divided
Integer: A number that has no fractional part, that is no digits after the decimal point
Remainder: The remainder that is left over when a number is divided by another
Modulus: Another term for remainder
Division (Integer): A division in which the fractional part (remainder) is discarded
Integer division
Integer division involves whole numbers. This means that we are only interested in whole numbers.
Let us think this through.
We are dividing a whole number by a whole number, and are only interested in a whole number as a result.
