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duaneb on July 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Mystery of 355/113

>With number theory, progress is much harder, things work in a completely different logic (think for example that 5+3 can be 0 for example)

I wasn't aware that the modulo operation had been raised to a field of mathematics.

raverbashing on July 25, 2012 [–]

Modulo operations is part of "number theory 101"

And ok, addition is nice and fun. Then you go to multiplication

Then you end up with Galois Fields.

Never underestimate the amount of discussion that goes into things like 1+1=2

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