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minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoThe 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.
minus-squareLog in | Sign up@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoIs not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?
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.
Is not 12+12Z the exact same coset as 0+12Z? Is 12 not the identity element? Must group theory follow computer science conventions?