On 2004-04-16 at 09:23:44, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On 2004-04-15 at 19:39:25, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > Of course you used for buffers that were not powers of 2. Had they
> > been powers of 2, you would have used & or &~. The fact that you 
> > didn't use a power of 2 is pretty questionable. The dread Unix
> > wizards will no doubt have questions for you about this. :-)
> 
> What are you talking about?  

Sorry for the tone - that was uncalled-for on my part.

> The biggest use of modulus is in implementing hashes

Rather, one of the biggest uses.  I don't have documentation to support
the claim that it is the biggest, and there are certainly others - 
date arithmetic, astronomy etc.

I probably should have my morning caffeine before replying to the list.
:)

-Mark

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