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   Dmitry A. Kazakov to Mike Terry   
   Re: Another little puzzle   
   22 Dec 22 09:10:41   
   
   From: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de   
      
   On 2022-12-22 01:01, Mike Terry wrote:   
      
   > Maybe so - I'd just say here that you are discussing an /algorithm/ to   
   > compute a result, rather than the definition of what is to be considered   
   > the correct answer, which was the focus in my post.   
      
   That was my first impression too. This is why my first response was that   
   the idea of puzzle was to perform calculations in modular arithmetic   
   without conversions to real/integer/fixed-point. Which is possible to   
   do, one should only count wrap-ups after each addition and in the end   
   take them into account in final division and remainder computations.   
      
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