It was thus said that the Great Lucas once stated: > but that would calculate the same division twice, is there any means to > get the % operator return both the reminder AND the quotient? > > r, q = 10 %% 3 > > or the like? my processing is getting slow with a mobile processor Not without hitting C [1]. Even the % operator still does a divide (technically speaking). -spc [1] https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/blob/master/src/math.c#L73