As a side note, I'd be careful using the term "remainder". Some languages have both a 'remainder' and a 'modulus' operator, and they behave slightly differently when it comes to negative numbers....
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As a side note, I'd be careful using the term "remainder". Some languages have both a 'remainder' and a 'modulus' operator, and they behave slightly differently when it comes to negative numbers....
It's used a lot in cryptography, because it allows you to perform a math operation and have a fixed-size result. For instance, you may need to multiply 32-bit numbers, and end up with a 32...