In the context of cryptography, I need to find the private key of a message and I need to use modular arithmetic. I understand how modular arithmetic using a clock with whole numbers. …

The term arithmetic underflow (or "floating point underflow", or just "underflow") is a condition in a computer program where the result of a calculation is a number of smaller absolute value than …

I am studying an undergraduate book of mathematical logic. After proving the two Gödel's theorems of incompleteness of formal theories, it asserts that some proofs of arithmetic's …

Arithmetic could roughly be described as working with the numbers we know within a particular system of numbers, and is often related in some way to working with things called integers …

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Recently I had this doubt about the order of precedence of mathematical operations multiplication and division. Given that we have a simple question like this 80 / 10 * 5 without parenthesis, what

I'm trying to mentally summarize the names of the operands for basic operations. I've got this so far: Addition: Augend + Addend = Sum. Subtraction: Minuend - Subtrahend = Difference. …

Let's clarify: $$9 - 4 + 3 \color {red} {\ne} 9 - (4 + 3) \tag {1}$$ It appears that you are confusing what is means to group together, or associate, the operations. Yes, addition and subtraction are …

There are two differing conventions on how to handle carry-in/out for subtraction. Intel x86 and M68k use a carry-in as "borrow" (1 means subtract 1 more) and adapt their carry-out to mean …

I'm looking for clear mathematical rules on rounding a number to $n$ decimal places. Everything seems perfectly clear for positive numbers. Here is for example what I ...