From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fcf8ea94b94d6941 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Modular type. What is it and why? Date: 1999/04/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 465046069 References: <7ean3c$79m$1@eol.dd.chalmers.se> <7eb2iq$jc3@hobbes.crc.com> <7ede2p$pd1$1@its.hooked.net> <7edhdi$sb8$1@its.hooked.net> <7egmbf$tgi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de 923783096 15277 192.168.0.1 (10 Apr 1999 22:24:56 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:24:56 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-10T22:24:56+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar writes: > And a difficulty is that the resulting types are called > modular types, instead of unsigned types, resulting in > exactly the confusion represented by the original > question here. In addition, division doesn't work as expected if the modulus is prime (at least from a mathematical point of view). :-/