Computing modulus in Labview 7

[zoogies]

Can this be done? I looked this up, and it looks like you do it in Labview 8 via MathScript. It's not one of the basic palette features on Labview (I'm using 7.1)

I made a simple quick-and-dirty VI, but I don't really like this since it's kind of hacked together. Labview doesn't really have a floor function, so I took the result of the divide, made an indicator from it, went to 'properties', made it an unsigned word (so that it would have to be a positive integer) and set it to 'coerce down' (round down). So this will do x modulo y for me, which accomplishes what I need, but it seems like there must be an easier way?

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6247

[BobHamburger]

There is an easier way: it's called the Quotient and Remainder function on the Numeric palette. This is a combination floor and modulo function. I've been using LabVIEW since 5.0, and it's been there at least that long.

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=6250

[Karissap]

QUOTE(zoogies @ Jun 28 2007, 09:23 AM)

Labview doesn't really have a floor function

There is a floor function, it's called "Round to -infinity" and it is in the Numeric palette of LabVIEW 7.1

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[zoogies]

Wow, thanks!

I noticed "round to -infinity" before but didn't really stop to think about what it could have meant. Hm, interesting name to call a floor function...