modular arithmetic (English, noun)
expansion: modular arithmetic (countable and uncountable, plural modular arithmetics)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Any system of arithmetic for integers which, for some given positive integer n, is equivalent to the set of integers being mapped onto the finite set {0, ... n} according to congruence modulo n, and in which addition and multiplication are defined consistently with the results of ordinary arithmetic being so mapped.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: modular arithmetics
tags: plural