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What does "modulo" mean in your first sentence?

• bubblyworld 2y ago
  It's a maths people phrase - usually it means something like "this is true if you ignore these counterexamples". For instance: my code is perfect, modulo all the bugs everyone keeps finding. I guess the analogy is the modulo operation removing a whole bunch of stuff from a number? I don't know haha.
  • maxbond 2y ago
    My interpretation is that it's related to modulate. Like how you might modulate the volume to reduce it (without muting it), "X is true modulo Y" means that Y makes X less true (but not untrue). I didn't find any evidence for this etymology from casual searching however (other than that the roots are related).