• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The different ways in which numbers slide up, down, sideways, diagonally.

    Is the example in the post part of the fifth type of arithmetic?

    1. Addition +
    2. Subtraction -
    3. Multiplication x
    4. Division /
    5. Modulo %

    The first time I learned about modulo as its’ own branch of arithmetic was long out of school already, I had only hazily heard of it, on a PBS Nova documentary in the 1990s about Fermat’s famous theorem and when it was proven after centuries of failed tries.