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Also called clock system
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modular arithmetic
2
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a system of arithmetic for
integers, where numbers wrap around after they reach a certain value – the modulus.
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modular arithmetic
3
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pioneered the modern approach to congruence in 1750, when he explicitly introduced the idea of congruence modulo a number N.
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Leonhard Euler
4
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further advanced in his book published in 1801 related to that of the remainder in division
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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The operation of finding the remainder is sometimes referred to as the ________.
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modulo operation
6
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the set of integers
from 0 , 1 , 2 ,…, n - 1 modulo n
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Zn
7
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True or False.
Zn has exactly n non-negative integers
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True
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Mathematics in the Modern World
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