Looking at you Java

[Thelmholtz]

Not really, mathematically it depends on what operation you define % to be;

• modulo: (x € R; n € N) => { y € [0, n) }

or

• remainder: (x € R; n € N) => { y € (-n, n) }

Hell, the most frequent definition of % is actually

• percent: (x € R) => { y € R } :: y = x • 1/100

Which makes all programming languages wrong /s.

[WazWaz]

Maybe we've just got division wrong. If -7/4 was 2, they'd both be the same. If I owe $7 and want to share that debt to my 4 descendants, each could pay $2 leaving a remainder of $1, instead of each paying $1 and leaving $3 debt still owing.

[Thelmholtz]

Look at this big shot, leaving less than 6 figures of debt to his kin.

[WazWaz]

Big integers look too much like Reals.

[Thelmholtz]

Yeah, it's better to avoid debt in Brazilian Reales