[Fwd: Re: Problem with your suggestion for mod.]

From: Chuck Swart <cswart_at_.....>
Date: Thu May 05 2005 - 10:00:44 PDT
  Please review this potential problem with
John Ries's reccomendation for extend the mod function.

Chuck Swart

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Problem with your suggestion for mod.
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 08:05:28 -0700
From: John Ries <johnr@model.com>
To: Chuck Swart <cswart@model.com>
References: <427969BC.8010705@model.com>



Hi Chuck,

That makes the assumption that N must be an integer.  N could
be defined as a physical type. Or we could define mod to
be

A = AType'VAL ( BType'POS(B) * N) + (A mod B)

Regards,
   John

Chuck Swart wrote:
> Your suggestion that we also allow integer values for the "b" value 
> works for rem but
> not for mod.
> 
> Mod follows the equation:
> 
> A = B*N+(A mod B)
> 
> If B is an integer, then the type of B*N is not of type time, the type 
> of A.
> 
> My view is that because of this, we shouldn't allow your proposal for 
> either
> mod or rem.
> 
> What are your ideas on this?
> (We'll be discussing this at the next ISAC meeting tomorrow)
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 


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