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From: Gerhard Wesp (gwesp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-30 06:08:52
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:24:27AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:36:45PM +0200, Gerhard Wesp wrote:
> > BTW, it seems strange that modular arithmetic should restricted to
> > unsigned integers.
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> It is not. It is pure habbit to use the smallest positive integers
> from the equivalence class as representative (see my last post).
I know. :)
I was commenting on Maarten's design that gave me the impression that
only nonnegative integers could be used in modular arithmetic.
Regards
-Gerhard
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