[OASIS Issue Tracker] Created: (OFFICE-3378) 19.367number:truncate-on-overflow - meaning of modulo? - not well-defined? - seedescription

19.367 number:truncate-on-overflow - meaning of modulo? - not well-defined? - see description
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                 Key: OFFICE-3378
                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-3378
             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Part 1 (Schema)
    Affects Versions: ODF 1.2 CD 05
            Reporter: Patrick Durusau
             Fix For: ODF 1.2 CD 06


We had a long discussion in http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1689 about this attribute but missed the use of "modulo."

From what I have found, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ModularArithmetic.html

http://www.cafeaulait.org/course/week2/15.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/se0w9esz%28VS.71%29.aspx

So the remainder of 24 modulo 24 is 0.

So the remainder of 48 modulo 24 is 0.

So the remainder of 72 modulo 24 is 0.

That can't be what we meant. 

Rather I think we meant to have the quotient plus any remainder.

Yes? 

Apologies for missing this in our prior discussion. It seems so clear now. 



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