and for the remainder and the quotient

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I am wondering how and why the operator    and     are for the remainder and the quotient   Is there any reason or history that R developer had given them the meaning they have     gt  0     10  1  0  gt  30    10  1  0  gt  35     10  1  3  gt  35    10  1  5

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I think it is because   has often be associated with the modulus operator in many programming languages   It is the case  e g   in C  C    C  and Java  and many other languages which derive their syntax from C  C itself took it from B

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Have a look at the examples below for a clearer understanding of the differences between the different operators    gt    Floating Division   gt  5 2  1  2 5  gt    gt    Integer Division   gt  5   2  1  2  gt    gt    Remainder   gt  5  2  1  1

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In R  you can assign your own operators using   characters    A trivial example     p    lt - function x  y  x 2   y   2  p  3   result  7   While I agree with BlueTrin that    is pretty standard  I have a suspicion     may have something to do with the sort of operator definitions I showed above - perhaps it was easier to implement  and makes sense      means do a special sort of division  integer division

[r] "%%" and "%/%" for the remainder and the quotient

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