Re: [FWP] Counting bits from the other end

[Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>]

On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:43:22AM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote:
> And for one of those weird coincidences, I learned just last night
> that one of my coworkers is a real math dude, so I asked him this
> one, and he was able to point out to me a simple proof; it all hangs
> on the fact that arithmetic on positive integers modulo a prime has
> all the groovy properties that make sense, that we expect when
          ^^^^^^
> doing normal arithmetic with integers.

Except in math, we call them "groupy".

Andrew

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