5 ms·
It looks like all instances of "module" here should be "modulo", having been auto-incorrected or something.
by mkl 7y ago
It looks like all instances of "module" here should be "modulo", having been auto-incorrected or something.
- gus_massa 7y agoUps. I'm from argentina, so blame the autotranslation table inside my brain. I hope it's not bad enough to make the idea unintelligible.
- tialaramex 7y agoIt's fine. We're in a thread about people's "snake oil detectors" going off, and your use of module where the right word is modulo kept causing the needle on mine to deflect, but you'd say something reasonable right after. The famous 19th century English poet Robert Browning was not a particularly worldly fellow and got it into his head that the word "twat" referred to a nun's headgear. Later he wrote a poem that needs a rhyme for bats in the context of religious folk arriving for prayer and he picked "twats", - then since he was an important English writer and this word was unfamiliar to them (or at least they had no citations for it) the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary asked him about it, and discovered his error. Oops. You're never going to make a mistake that'll be as famous as Browning's, so you're fine.
- felipemnoa 7y agoSince we are correcting stuff, it is: Oops I also was thrown off by the word module. I said to myself, unless he is talking about modulo I have no idea what that is.
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agohttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/Module.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Module.html The Module Learning With Rounding (MLWR) and Module Learning With Errors (MLWE) problems are used for a couple of the round-two candidates in NIST's Post-Quantum cryptography contest. Which makes it more confusing. Modules aren't first/second year university math.