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Topic: Conway on Trilinear vs Barycentric coordinates
Replies: 13   Last Post: Feb 16, 1999 8:05 AM

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Clifford J. Nelson

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Re; remainders versus modulo
Posted: Feb 16, 1999 7:57 AM
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Kirby Urner wrote:

<< Not sure I understand the question. Remainders needn't be
primes, merely less than the divisor. >>

Is arithmetic, remainder (as well as modulo) a prime, a field? The
remainder function can have a sign of positive or negative, but the
mod function is always positive.

Cliff Nelson

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