What is % stand for in C++?
Hi, I'm pretty much new to C++ and programming. Anyway I was reading my programming book and in one of the examples they use % in the code, and I couldn't find out what it means.
The line of code in the book was
n = n % 1000
The line of code in the book was
n = n % 1000
% stand for modulus. It basically acts as a division sign '/' but it returns the remainder. For example, say you do 10 % 3. 3 times 3 is nine so the remainder would be 1. Another way to think of it is like 10 / 3 gives you 3 and one third. The one is in the one third is your remainder.
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