小编Joh*_*ohn的帖子

Let's say I have (-5) mod 8.

I tried it in both languages Java and C, and they gave me a -5 result when I was expecting 3.

Why is this happening? Can a modulus be negative? And what should I change to get the correct result?

Java code

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int x;
        x = -5%8;
        System.out.println(x);
    }
}

C code

int main(){
    int x;
    x = -5%8;
    printf("%d", x); …