• mumblerfish@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The AM/PM bullshit:

    AM: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

    Then the same for PM. Who counts like that? Whats after 12? 1! What?

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      2 months ago

      The galaxy-brained group known as “Z12 + 1”. “What if we did modular arithmetic but one-indexed.”

      Edit: Actually, wait, it’s worse: zero-indexing but we represent the zero element in Zn as ‘n’. Kill it with fire.

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        2 months ago

        Is not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?