Hi Anne,

The "." in front of the two numbers indicates that they are in decimal
radix,and the "%" is a standard symbol for modulo division,just as you say.

Sean


At 10:18 AM 8/31/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Any idea what the below line of code, from a downloaded
>random # generator, means?
>
>        movlw   .48821%.256
>
>is .48821%.256 an identifier I should EQU  ?
>It's apparently supposed to be  48821 mod 256
>
>--
>Anniepoo
>Need loco motors?
>http://www.idiom.com/~anniepoo/depot/motors.html
>
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