Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial

Date	2011-08-19 02:28 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial
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On 8/19/2011 1:22 AM, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Hallvard B Furuseth writes:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov writes:
>>> forall N>= M    N!=0 mod M
>>
>> Or rather          N==0 mod M
>
> Sigh,              N! == 0 mod M
>

I thought we were writing mathematics in this thread in which case "="
is the symbol for asserting equality and "==" is meaningless. What
symbolic language uses "==" for equality, postfix "!" for factorial, and
infix "mod" for modulo?

Patricia

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Modification to an algorithm involving factorial divcurl <divcurl@europe.com> - 2011-08-18 12:04 -0700
  Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2011-08-18 21:39 +0200
    Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial divcurl <divcurl@europe.com> - 2011-08-18 13:58 -0700
      Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2011-08-18 23:31 +0200
      Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-18 15:40 -0700
      Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-08-19 13:33 +0000
        Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-19 07:57 -0700
    Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2011-08-19 10:20 +0200
      Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2011-08-19 10:22 +0200
        Re: Modification to an algorithm involving factorial Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-19 02:28 -0700

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