POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Negative division : Re: Negative division Server Time
29 Jul 2024 08:11:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Negative division  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 10 Mar 2003 18:45:55
Message: <3e6d23b3$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3e6cf18e$1@news.povray.org> , gimi <gim### [at] psicoch>  wrote:

> honestly, i don't see where you are trying to get here.
>
> of course the two functions have to be defined on the basis
> of the same system, or they would not work (as they have to
> sort of "complement" each other). - you cannot use two
> different rulesets for creating "div" and "mod" functions;
> as they will not generally fulfull the equation in the
> definition this way (like using "hp-div" together with
> "povray-mod", or whatever).

The point is that the non-POV-Ray results are plain useless for anything but
combining mod and div results back together.  However, it might be
surprising, but the mod and div functions exist for more than just
mathematical completeness.

Apart from this, I really have no time for this.

    Thorsten

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