Modulo
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See also modular arithmetic.
A mathematician who says
- "A is the same as B, modulo C"
means, more or less:
- A is the same as B except for differences accounted for or explained by C.
The usage came from Karl Friedrich Gauss's modular arithmetic. It is consonant with the traditional theoretical-mathematical way of using the word modulo, and perhaps less consonant with the modern computing usage of that term.
Later, computer scientists picked up the term, and lacking the theoretical mathematicians' viewpoint, used it more-or-less synonymously with the preposition except.
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References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Modulo" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
