Revision as of 14:53, 22 October 2008 by Ricec (Talk)

I used the examples on page 249 to "give a reasonable interpretation". Is that what they want?


I think what they want is something like this...

1/2 should be the multiplicative inverse of 2. In mod 7, the mult. inverse of 2 is 4 (4*2 = 2*4 = 8 mod 7 = 1). So 1/2 mod 7 could be interpreted as 4. Similar logic for the others.

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