modular arithmetic
The English word “modular arithmetic” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- Any system of arithmetic for integers which, for some given positive integer n, is equivalent to the set of integers being mapped onto the finite set 0, ... n according to congruence modulo n, and in which addition and multiplication are defined consistently with the results of ordinary arithmetic being so mapped.
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