Scratch

"mod" is short for modification.  If I am modding something, I am taking an existing program and modifying it.  That help?

Essentially the same thing. If someone downloads someone else's project, then modifies part of it, it is technically called a "Mod."  It's basically any change you make to someone else's project in order to either make it better, or just different.

wow...sorry...totally just realized what was happening

my bad

mod in scratch is a form of division in which you only get a whole number in  return.

Example.  5 divided by 2 = 2.5, but 5 "MOD" 2 would simply equal 2.

I'm not positive if it's just division, but that's my experience with it.  It cuts off the decimal to give whole numbers on any division.

sorry again, gotta make sure i read the first post in a forum before i go blabbing my head off...

I keep forgetting which comes first. Anyone have a memory trick?

eyra

Oops

I might not be right but if you turn scratch on and click "want help?" And click

help screens it tells you

The definition of mod as remainder when dividing is not quite complete and results in different implementations with different interpretations, particularly when applied to non-integer numbers.  (Quick, what is pi mod -1.3?)

Here is a definition that works well for all real numbers (except x mod 0, which continues to make no sense), and is consistent with the limited definitions usually given for positive integers:

x mod y =   x - y*floor(x/y)

where floor(a) means the largest integer <= a.

Note that for y >0,   0 <= x mod y < y
and for y<0      y< x mod y <=0

To get good limit properties for lim_{y->0) x mod y, we should define x mod 0 as 0.
Scratch treats x mod 0 as an error instead, which is an  acceptable choice.

or mad can be short for moduale

MahoAshley wrote:

or mad can be short for moduale

and oops slight mistake i meant MOD not mad! (^v^)``

well sorry! its not THAT obvisous!