Lua supports the usual arithmetic operators:
the binary + (addition),
- (subtraction), * (multiplication),
/ (division), % (modulo), and ^ (exponentiation);
and unary - (negation).
If the operands are numbers, or strings that can be converted to
numbers (see §2.2.1),
then all operations have the usual meaning.
Exponentiation works for any exponent.
For instance, x^(-0.5) computes the inverse of the square root of x .
Modulo is defined as
a % b == a - math.floor(a/b)*b
That is, it is the remainder of a division that rounds
the quotient towards minus infinity. |