Calculator Buttons

Sorry for sounding like an idiot, but do most scientific calculators have a 'mod' function? And if so, what does it look like.

Thanks :smile:

If it's important, I have a casio fx-85ES.

Reply 1

Prudy

As I remember, on that one it is the Abs button. It will come up on the display as |[]| (the [] being a closed box)

Reply 2

Mush

Do you mean the modulus function... or the actual mod operation?

Reply 3

Mush

Prudy

As I remember, on that one it is the Abs button. It will come up on the display as |[]| (the [] being a closed box)

Aye that's modulus. I have a casio fx-570ES. Shift-hyp on mine does the trick on mine.

Reply 4

PhantomBoggler

Sorry I should of been clearer, I meant like calculating the remainder. e.g. 10mod3 = 1.

Is that called the remainder function?

What idiot named these things! haha

Reply 5

Mush

I don't reckon so. Why would you need such a thing... working out the remainder is pretty easy from looking at the fraction/decimal that the calc gives you...

Reply 6

PhantomBoggler

Yeah you're right actually. Bit of an epic fail from me. I guess you can't use it in the middle of a larger function though? unless you calculate it and write it down first.
I'm gonna go read up on modular arithmetic on wikipedia now anyway, which is probably a better start.

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