[N00B] What's %?

[Robert Kern]

administrata wrote:

> sry, i don't know much about maths
> 
> What is % used for?
> 
> such as?

Among many other things, you can use it to test whether one integer 
evenly divides another integer.

For example, to test if a number is odd:

def isodd(x):
     return bool(x % 2)

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