Articles related to "Modular Arithmetic"

In what way are clocks, musical scales, sine waves and long division related? They all rely on a form of mathematics known as modular arithmetic.

Just as numbers form groups under operations like addition and multiplication, they form special kinds of groups under modular addition and multiplication.

The so-called unit circle is one of the key tools of trigonometry. At its simplest, it is merely a circle which has a center point at (0,0) and a radius of one.