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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: Extended modal types
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 14:06:09 -0400
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I think the real issue here is that for moduli other than powers of 2, e.g.

    type r is mod 446;

the bitwise operations "and", "or", and "not" simply do not have any
intuitive meaning. It may very well have been preferable for these
operations to be undefined for mod 446.