[Tutor] meaning of % in: if n % x == 0:

[Alan Gauld]

On 31/08/11 20:35, Lisi wrote:
> ??  If either n or x or both were 0, and % were the same thing as *, the
> statement would be true, but from the context I don't think that % does mean
> the same as *, because * appears very soon after in the same fragment of
> code.


It's the remainder operator:

IF N MOD X = 0

in BASIC

It's explained in the Simple Sequences topic of my tutorial and 
mentioned again in the Raw Materials topic under integers.

The use of % as the operator goes back to C. Many of Python's
operators are just inherited directly from C.

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Alan G
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