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Can someone explain the use of "modulo" here? > I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external colla
by Solvency 3y ago
Can someone explain the use of "modulo" here?
> I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.
ChatGPT says "modulo" means "except for, not accounting for" in this context.
I always thought modulo was explicitly a math term to mean the remainder after dividing one number by another.
Where did this other "not accounting for" definition / usage come from...?
- _flux 3y agoI don't have an answer for that, but it's been in The Jargon File as accessed by dict atleast since 2003, so it's not a new idiom.
- jwilk 3y agoBackdated to 1981: http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg1-81-MM-DD.txt http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg1-81-MM-DD.txt
- darrenf 3y agoIt's been used that way for a long time - it has an entry in the Jargon File: http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/modulo.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/modulo.html
- _dain_ 3y agoIt's used in the same sense as "up to". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to
- bikenaga 3y ago* * *