About "modulo.zip" version 2 (was: New file uploaded to boost)

From: darylew_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-11 01:12:45

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Version 2 adds an "assign" member function, expansion of the 
ring type to "unsigned long," allowing 1 to be a ring (some 
results aren't well-defined though), and documentation.

I was considering asking about adding an operator %=, then I 
realized that a remainder isn't well-defined in modulo arithmetic.  
Division is just multiplying by the reciprocal, it has no "real" 
meaning, unlike division with real numbers.  So there really isn't 
a remainder concept either.  Too bad, that operator would have 
let me use the boost::operators template from <boost/
operators.hpp>.

Daryle Walker
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