
11 Jul
2007
11 Jul
'07
3:11 p.m.
Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
I'm just being picky here: where the underlying machine's behaviour is 2's complement binary, it (Int, +, *) is actually a tidy, well-behaved mathematical ring, isomorphic to Z / 2^n Z.
Yes, naturally it wasn't until a few moments after I had sent the message that I noticed my error.