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Re: Arithmetic overflow checking

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On 07/26/2011 04:53 AM, Henderson wrote:
> On 26/07/2011 3:28 AM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> What do you mean by "truncate" in modular arithmetic? Mod 10, 1 and 11
>> are the same thing (the set of numbers {..., -9, 1, 11, ... }).
>
> As in, if you have a mod10 type, and you assign 36 to it, do you just
> silently accept that and store it internally as 6, or do you throw an
> exception if the input isn't in the range 0 to 9?

There is nothing inherently correct about the elements in mod 10 
arithmetic having values 0 to 9, so 36 is as valid in mod 10 as 6 is.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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