Timeline for Is there any reason why the modulo operator is denoted as %?
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| Dec 20, 2020 at 9:58 | vote | accept | zdm | ||
| Dec 18, 2020 at 23:15 | comment | added | Foo Bar | According to citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/… Bemer wrote it in the June 1960 issue of Computing Reviews by ACM. A handful of academic libraries have physical copies, but there doesn't appear to be a digital version. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 13:56 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | Is there any direct evidence that Bemer intended `\` to represent reverse division? The page here does not mention division at all. It seems he just wanted a character with a diagonal line. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 16:58 | comment | added | Hans Olsson | Note: for matrices in Matlab a\b isn't normally written b / a - it's normally written as (a)^1*b, which is different as matrix multiplication isn't commutative. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 15:37 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @YuvalFilmus I think Matlab was the first to use it. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 8:20 | comment | added | Yuval Filmus | a \ b = b / a. You can find this usage in sage for matrices, likely borrowed from somewhere else. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 5:46 | comment | added | user13267 | what is a reverse division? multiplication? | |
| Dec 16, 2020 at 23:37 | history | edited | Foo Bar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
link was in the wrong place
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| Dec 16, 2020 at 21:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 16, 2020 at 21:30 | history | answered | Foo Bar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |