math sanity check

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Malcolm
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Alright, granted it's been a long time since I'd to prove this from first principles...but -1 modulo 10 is still 9, right?

Then why the fuck does C# think -1 % 10 yields -1?

After some brief Googling, the answer appears to be, "because FORTRAN did it."
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