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Do you mean to say a finite ring? "Pure" integer arithmetic in math (without any notion of overflow or wrapping) is a ring also, so I'm not sure what distinctio
by umanwizard 10y ago
Do you mean to say a finite ring? "Pure" integer arithmetic in math (without any notion of overflow or wrapping) is a ring also, so I'm not sure what distinction you're making by saying "in hardware".
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoYes, a finite ring. There are languages that overflow from hardware integers into some kind of BigNum automatically. Those languages are not finite rings. (Well, OK, they're finite in the sense that eventually the memory space will be exhausted...)
- umanwizard 10y agoyep, but they're still rings :)