Grant Edwards wrote: > It's the modulus operator. It returns the remainder of integer > division. As we used to say in second grade: > > 4 goes into 107 26 times with 3 left over. > > 3 goes into 4 2 times with 1 left over. How long were you stuck in second grade, Grant? <grin> -Peter P.S. You're correct, for large values of four.... ;-)