On Dec 15, 3:58 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 42 = 2 mod 5 > > 2 = 42 mod 5 > > It might make more sense to programmers if you think of it as written: > > 42 = 2, mod 5 > 2 = 42, mod 5 > > ChrisA
For the record I should say that the guy who taught me abstract algebra, said about as much: He said that the notation a == b mod n should be written as a ==n b (read the == as 3 horizontal lines and the n as a subscript) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
