diff --git a/test/unit/test_symbolic.py b/test/unit/test_symbolic.py
index 00d3f53b..b3cab5aa 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_symbolic.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_symbolic.py
@@ -318,6 +318,14 @@ class TestSymbolic(unittest.TestCase):
     lidx3 = Variable("lidx3", 0, 1)
     self.helper_test_variable((gidx0+lidx2+lidx3)*4, 0, 80, "((gidx0*4)+(lidx2*4)+(lidx3*4))")
 
+  def test_variable_divmod(self):
+    start_pos = Variable("start_pos", 0, 127)
+    v = start_pos + 1
+    idx0 = Variable("idx0", 0, 2)
+    idx1 = Variable("idx1", 0, start_pos)
+    self.helper_test_variable((idx0*v+idx1)//v, 0, 2, "(idx0)")
+    self.helper_test_variable((idx0*v+idx1)%v, 0, start_pos, "idx1")
+
 class TestSymbolicNumeric(unittest.TestCase):
   def helper_test_numeric(self, f):
     # TODO: why are the negative tests broken? (even if we did support negative variables)
diff --git a/test/unit/test_uop_symbolic.py b/test/unit/test_uop_symbolic.py
index 7bf2e46c..bf0775d1 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_uop_symbolic.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_uop_symbolic.py
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ def render(self) -> Tuple[str, ConstType, ConstType]:
 
 def NumNode(val): return UOp.const(dtypes.int, val)
 def Variable(expr, nmin, nmax):
-  return UOp(UOps.DEFINE_VAR, dtypes.int, arg=(expr, UOp.const(dtypes.int, nmin), UOp.const(dtypes.int, nmax)))
+  vmin = UOp.const(dtypes.int, nmin)
+  vmax = UOp.const(dtypes.int, nmax) if isinstance(nmax, int) else nmax
+  return UOp(UOps.DEFINE_VAR, dtypes.int, arg=(expr, vmin, vmax))
 class Node:
   @staticmethod
   def sum(ops): return functools.reduce(lambda x,y: x+y, ops)
@@ -375,6 +377,15 @@ class TestSymbolic(unittest.TestCase):
     lidx3 = Variable("lidx3", 0, 1)
     self.helper_test_variable((gidx0+lidx2+lidx3)*4, 0, 80, "((gidx0*4)+(lidx2*4)+(lidx3*4))")
 
+  @unittest.expectedFailure
+  def test_variable_divmod(self):
+    start_pos = Variable("start_pos", 0, 127)
+    v = start_pos + 1
+    idx0 = Variable("idx0", 0, 2)
+    idx1 = Variable("idx1", 0, start_pos)
+    self.helper_test_variable((idx0*v+idx1)//v, 0, 2, "(idx0)")
+    self.helper_test_variable((idx0*v+idx1)%v, 0, start_pos, "idx1")
+
   # *** below are uop_symbolic only
 
   # NOTE: tests are not correct in symbolic