What's the difference between % and /?

Hello, so while calculating, I was wondering, what’s difference between / and %? Please do it pretty simple for I can understand

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/ is division, % is the remainder of the division
14 / 4 = 3.5
14 % 4 = 2 because 14 = 4 * 3 + 2 (remainder)

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Wait, so why x 3? I don’t get it
It looks like if it was a math.floor() lol!

Because that’s the mathematical definition of the remainder
R = X % Y if and only if X = Y * k + R, where R is a smallest possible non negative integer and k is an integer.