Re: div bug
Re: div bug
- Subject: Re: div bug
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:59:48 -0700
On 2009-08-04, at 09:12:05, Mark J. Reed wrote:
...and our use of modular arithmetic was limited to clocks. The
idea of dividing by 1 and taking the remainder to get the
fractional part of a number, or there existing a form of division
under which the integers formed a closed set, was not something we
were taught in school at all, at least not until college CS classes.
Hmm. "Music math" goes round in circles eternally. We got that in
first year high school. But I must admit, if it had been explained as
'modular arithmetic' à la wikipedia article I just peeked at, I might
not have been so enthralled.
Philip Aker
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