Quotient and Remainder with Negative numbers?

[grcutter]

Is the Quotient and Remaider function supposed to work with negative numbers?

-1 divided by 5 returns a quotient of -1 and a remainder of +4.....I expected Q=0 and R= -1

-6 divided by 5 returns Q= -2 and R = +4....I expected Q=-1 and R = -1

Is this a bug or a misunderstanding of how the Q & R function works?

[johnsold]

Those results are consistent with the way the function is defined.  See the context help for the formulas.

Lynn 

[altenbach]

The definition and result differ in various programming language, see for example this article.

Personally, I prefer the LabVIEW interpretation for many reasons. 🙂