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by Karellen 846 days ago
> Modulo is not an operator,

"operator" is being used as a term of art in programming language design, to describe a symbol used to indicate that an operation should be performed on one or more operands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(computer_programming...

So the "%" symbol is an operator in C and Python, and it is standard usage to describe the operator that performs a mathematical function "X" as the "X operator".