You may never have heard of modular arithmetic, but you use it every day without the slightest difficulty. In this system, numbers wrap around when they reach a certain size called the modulus; it is ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Mathematics Teacher (MT), an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is devoted to improving ...
One of my fellow contributors here recently wrote a post about leap years and why we have them. This reminded me of modular arithmetic and the formula for calculating the day of the week for any date ...