Description
First, the Arduino reference refers to % as "modulo". However "remainder" is a more appropriate (and familiar) name (and the one used in the C++ standard to describe what % does; also it's the third word that appears in the description in the Arduino documentation).
Second, the reference should include some examples of what happens when you % negative numbers. Here's where the conceptual difference between "remainder" and "modulo" lies: the result of the former has the same sign as the FIRST operand, whereas the latter would have the one of the SECOND. This is annoying since almost in 100% of the cases where % meets negatives you want the second behavior (e.g. (-13) % 10
yielding 7
); however C++ surprises you with the first behavior (-3
). Therefore it is important to clarify this in the documentation.