Modulo of negative numbers

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I was wondering if there was a nicer algorithm for what I'm trying to do:

wrapIndex(-6, 3) = 0
wrapIndex(-5, 3) = 1
wrapIndex(-4, 3) = 2
wrapIndex(-3, 3) = 0
wrapIndex(-2, 3) = 1
wrapIndex(-1, 3) = 2
wrapIndex(0, 3) = 0
wrapIndex(1, 3) = 1
wrapIndex(2, 3) = 2
wrapIndex(3, 3) = 0
wrapIndex(4, 3) = 1
wrapIndex(5, 3) = 2

I came up with

function wrapIndex(i, i_max) {
        if(i > -1)
            return i%i_max;

        var x = i_max + i%i_max;
        if(x == i_max)
            return 0;

        return x;
    }

Is there a nicer way to do this?

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