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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values s
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0 |
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Mon, 17 Dec 2018 21:10:05 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #1, bug #55238 (project octave):
Just a followup to the workaround, even larger numbers for the modulo command
can be used by breaking it up into even more terms. For example, mod(24^23,55)
can be solved with three iterations inside a wrap:
mod((mod(24^10,55)*mod(24^10,55))*mod(24^3,55),55)
[ = 19 ]
So, it looks like this is just a really-large-number issue after all. Not sure
if this constitutes a bug, but in the meantime, hopefully people searching
around will find this helpful. It appears that the exponent should be kept to
10 or less for each term, given a base of two digits at least.
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- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, anonymous, 2018/12/17
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0,
anonymous <=
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Michael Leitner, 2018/12/18
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Michael Leitner, 2018/12/18
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, anonymous, 2018/12/18
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Mike Miller, 2018/12/18
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Rik, 2018/12/21
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Michael Leitner, 2018/12/22
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Rik, 2018/12/23
- [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55238] Modulo [mod(X, Y)] of larger values seems to fail silently to output 0, Rik, 2018/12/23