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Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:


> calculations are helped by the fact that (a+b) % c == a%c + b%c, so

As long as we understand that == here does not mean "equal", only
"congruent modulo c", e.g try a = 13, b = 12, c = 7.

Nick