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On 8/17/2011 4:48 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
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> Rather:  arr[ (n%arr.length + arr.length) % arr.length ]

I believe the root cause of the problem may have been thinking of % as a
modulo operator when it is really the remainder operator. Has any
thought been given to create Math.mod, for both int and long, with
implementation as above?

Patricia