[PD-dev] proposed new "list" object

[Chris McCormick]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:35:15PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > and [mod 16] counts zerobased from 0-15.
> 
> According to the mathematicians' definition of modulo, there is a priori 
> no enforced representation of modulo, and to say 0, it's just as valid to 
> say 0 or 16 or 32 or -16, because all those values are the same value in 
> the mod 16 context. However, there's a habit of naming "0" anything that 
> behaves much like the "0" of ordinary numbers, and the same for "1". 
> Therefore, although mathematicians could've picked 1..16 for working in 
> mod 16, they use 0..15 instead.

In both mathematics and computing, a modulus is calculated from the
remainder of the division. Nobody "could've picked" anything.

Best regards,

Chris.

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