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    Question Question about operators.

    I'm following a tutorial at http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/tut1-3.html and the problem is that I don't understand the description of an operator called module (%).

    The description that they give there is I believe got a mistake (I just don't know what mistake).

    The only one that may not be known by you is the module, specified with the percentage sign (%). Module is the operation that gives the rest of a division of two integer values. For example, if we write a = 11 % 3;, the variable a will contain 2 as result since 2 is the rest from dividing 11 between 3.
    That was from that site, and I don't get it?

    Anyone? PLS HLP
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    % does an integer division, throws away the quotient and returns the remainder.
    / does an integer division, throws away the remainder and returns the quotient.

    21/5 = 4
    21%5 =1

    get it?
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    If you are doing normal devision using a paper and a pencil... You'll get two things:
    The result, and the remainder...
    The / operator will give you the result, and the & operator will give you the remainder.

    What is it that is not clear?
    none...

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    no no, its clear all-right!

    thanks but could I get some more examples.
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