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Vivek
Vivek

Reputation: 4636

How to find the remainder of a division in C?

Which is the best way to find out whether the division of two numbers will return a remainder? Let us take for example, I have an array with values {3,5,7,8,9,17,19}. Now I need to find the perfect divisor of 51 from the above array. Is there any simpler way to solve this?

Upvotes: 23

Views: 223808

Answers (3)

hari
hari

Reputation: 9743

All the above answers are correct. Just providing with your dataset to find perfect divisor:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() 
{

int arr[7] = {3,5,7,8,9,17,19};
int j = 51;
int i = 0;

for (i=0 ; i < 7; i++) {
    if (j % arr[i] == 0)
        printf("%d is the perfect divisor of %d\n", arr[i], j);
}

return 0;
}

Upvotes: 1

MByD
MByD

Reputation: 137432

Use the modulus operator %, it returns the remainder.

int a = 5;
int b = 3;

if (a % b != 0) {
   printf("The remainder is: %i", a%b);
}

Upvotes: 12

Mircea Nistor
Mircea Nistor

Reputation: 3270

You can use the % operator to find the remainder of a division, and compare the result with 0.

Example:

if (number % divisor == 0)
{
    //code for perfect divisor
}
else
{
    //the number doesn't divide perfectly by divisor
}

Upvotes: 37

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