(thing) by SgtCoolGuy Wed Apr 12 2000 at 17:26:00
In mathematics and computer science it is the operation which returns the remainder of division. The symbol is % in coding.

For example: 9%5=4, 6%6=0, 5%7=5

Another way of saying "modulo"
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