C# modulus operator

Question

I can write the program

int a = 3;
int b = 4;

Console.WriteLine(a % b);

The answer I get is 3. How does 3 mod 4 = 3???

I can't figure out how this is getting computed this way.

Answer 1

Because the remainder of 3 / 4 = 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operator

If you can't figure out why the remainder is 3, we've got some more serious problems here.

Answer 2

I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I couldn't figure out how the remainder was 3.

So you have 3 cookies, and you want to divide them equally between 4 people.

Because there are more people than cookies, nobody gets a cookie (quotient = 0) and you've got a remainder of 3 cookies for yourself. :)

Answer 3

3 mod 4 is the remainder when 3 is divided by 4.

In this case, 4 goes into 3 zero times with a remainder of 3.

Answer 4

As explained by others, but if you don't want to use the "mod" operator. Here is the equation to figure out the remainder of "a" divided by "n"

a-(n* int(a/n))

Answer 5

i already think that the user may have understood the answers.. because there are so many good programmer.. in simple wording % tells u the reminder after dividing with your own integer.

e.g.

int a = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
int b = a % 2;

now you input 13, it will give 1, becuase after diving 13 by 2 remainder is 1 in simple mathematics. Hope you got that.

Answer 6

Another "as explained by others", but if you're curious about several more ways to do modulus (or use an alternative method), you can read this article which benchmarks a few different ways.

Basically, the fastest way is the good old fashioned modulus operator, similar to:

if (x % threshold == some_value)
{
    //do whatever you need to
}

Answer 7

I found the answer confusing and misleading.....

Modulus is what is left over IN THE FIRST NUMBER after dividing the second into it as many times as possible.

1 % 1 = 0 because after dividing 1 into 1, one time, there's nothing left
2 % 1 = 0 because after dividing 1 into 2, two times, there's nothing left
1 % 2 = 1 because 2 won't go into 1, so 1 is left