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In Python, the modulo of negative numbers works differently from other languages like C or JavaScript.
Read more details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3883004/the-modulo-operation-on-negative-numbers-in-python
And "how it happened" by Guido van Rossum himself:
https://python-history.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-pythons-integer-division-floors.html
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