Terry Reedy writes: > On 12/12/2011 5:59 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > > Past experience in mathematics newsgroups tells me > > that some mathematicians do not accept the existence of any remainder > > operator at all. > > Even though they carry hour/minute/second remindering devices on their > bodies and put year/month/day remaindering devices on their wall? > 'Twould be strange indeed!
They recognize modular arithmetic but for some reason insist that there is no such _binary operation_. But as I said, I don't understand their concern. (Except the related concern about some programming languages, not Python, where the remainder does not behave well with respect to division.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
