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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: S-expression I/O in Ada
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:19:58 -0400
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Natacha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com> writes:

> On Aug 8, 11:08�pm, Robert A Duff <bobd...@shell01.TheWorld.com>
> wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> By the way, one defense of modular types I've heard is that
>> they are used in mathematics. �True. �But mathematicians do
>> not use _implicit_ mod. �They say things like "X = Y (mod N)",
>> which is pronounced "X is congruent to Y (modulo N)".
>> Congruent, not equal.
>
> Actually past a certain level, they don't explicit mod anymore.

Interesting.  I never reached that level of math!

>... I
> don't remember hearing many "modulo" in Galois field classes. And
> neither when dealing with stuff like an n-bit integer representing a
> member of Z/2Z [X] quotiented by a n+1 degree polynomial (Reed-Solomon
> stuff). And then you're overloading "+" with something very xor-like

- Bob