[m-dev.] Re: pragma fact_table

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Thu Feb 27 03:01:03 AEDT 1997


I wrote:

> `mod' in Mercury computes remainder rather than modulus.

Actually I'm not sure what it computes anymore.  I don't know what the
standard meaning of the words "modulus" and "remainder" is, or even
whether those words *have* any standard meaning.

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