instance method

Numeric#%

(::Numeric) -> ::Numeric

self % other → real_numeric

static VALUE
num_modulo(VALUE x, VALUE y)
{
    VALUE q = num_funcall1(x, id_div, y);
    return rb_funcall(x, '-', 1,
                      rb_funcall(y, '*', 1, q));
}

Returns self modulo other as a real numeric (Integer, Float, or Rational).

Of the Core and Standard Library classes, only Rational uses this implementation.

For Rational r and real number n, these expressions are equivalent:

Example

r % n
r-n*(r/n).floor
r.divmod(n)[1]

See Numeric#divmod.

Examples:

Example

r = Rational(1, 2)    # => (1/2)
r2 = Rational(2, 3)   # => (2/3)
r % r2                # => (1/2)
r % 2                 # => (1/2)
r % 2.0               # => 0.5

r = Rational(301,100) # => (301/100)
r2 = Rational(7,5)    # => (7/5)
r % r2                # => (21/100)
r % -r2               # => (-119/100)
(-r) % r2             # => (119/100)
(-r) %-r2             # => (-21/100)

See also #+@ #-@ also in 4.1 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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