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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Modular Arithmetic
Authors : Ulrich Daepp, Pamela Gorkin
Published in: Reading, Writing, and Proving
Publisher: Springer New York
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You began your mathematical education adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers. From there you moved on to rational numbers, then to real numbers, and, perhaps, to complex numbers. But this is not the only kind of arithmetic mathematicians study. In fact, there’s a very different kind of arithmetic that you use every single day. The popular name for these calculations is clock arithmetic, and it is indeed based upon the clock.