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Scheme offer two functions, remainder and modulo – Ada and PL/I have mod and rem, while Fortran has mod and modulo; in each case, the former agrees in sign with the dividend, and the latter with the divisor. Common Lisp and Haskell also have mod and rem, but mod uses the sign of the divisor and rem uses the sign of the dividend.
Stewart Shapiro divides structuralism into three major schools of thought. [4] These schools are referred to as the ante rem, the in re, and the post rem.. The ante rem structuralism [5] ("before the thing"), or abstract structuralism [4] or abstractionism [6] [7] (particularly associated with Michael Resnik, [4] Stewart Shapiro, [4] Edward N. Zalta, [8] and Øystein Linnebo) [9] has a similar ...
The post rem structuralism ("after the thing") is anti-realist about structures in a way that parallels nominalism. Like nominalism, the post rem approach denies the existence of abstract mathematical objects with properties
In computing, the modulo operation returns the remainder or signed remainder of a division, after one number is divided by another, called the modulus of the operation.. Given two positive numbers a and n, a modulo n (often abbreviated as a mod n) is the remainder of the Euclidean division of a by n, where a is the dividend and n is the divisor.
This following list features abbreviated names of mathematical functions, function-like operators and other mathematical terminology. This list is limited to abbreviations of two or more letters (excluding number sets).
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Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known after a proof has been carried out. In philosophy, used to denote something known from experience. a priori: from the former: Presupposed independent of experience; the reverse of a posteriori. Used in mathematics and logic to denote something that is known or postulated before a ...
Australian Senior Mathematics Journal. 20 (2): 36–44; For a selection of mathematical fiction chosen with the teaching of mathematics in secondary school in mind: Janice Padula (2005). "Mathematical Fiction: Its Place in Secondary-School Mathematics Learning" (PDF). Australian Mathematics Teacher. 61 (4): 6–13