Modulus of negative number

Question

-14%3=?

C gives me -2 and python gives me 1. I have also tried many languages, all of them are having either giving 1or -2. Then I checked again, and found out that the compilers are giving -2 and the interpreters are giving 1. But JavaScript being an interpreter language, gives -2. Why?

I don't see what it has to do with being a compiled or interpreted language. — jsheeran, Jan 09 '18 at 15:00
Different languages, different rules. There’s logic behind each result; the logic is different, that’s all. — Jonathan Leffler, Jan 09 '18 at 15:01
@JonathanLeffler op simply asks what the logic is. That's all — Adelin, Jan 09 '18 at 15:01
Just add 3 if you have a negative number. Technically this two numbers represents the same number under the module world — Kram, Jan 09 '18 at 15:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 09 '18 at 15:17

This is not a matter of compiling vs interpreted languages. Each language has its own rules.

For Python, you always get a result with the same sign as the second operator.

The modulo operator always yields a result with the same sign as its second operand (or zero); the absolute value of the result is strictly smaller than the absolute value of the second operand

https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html

Modulus of negative number

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