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[–] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 6 days ago

% is used in C and various other programming as the modulo "operator". DDG calculator does explain itself by restating the input to mod(5,2).

Computer programmers are just lazy and will steal any commonly understood symbol and reporpoise it to save a few key strokes.