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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, <b>modular arithmetic</b> is a system of <a href="page.php?w=arithmetic">arithmetic</a> operations for <a href="page.php?w=integer">integer</a>s, differing from the usual ones in that numbers "wrap around" when reaching or exceeding a certain value, called the <b>modulus</b>. The modern approach to <a href="page.php?w=number_theory">number theory</a> using modular arithmetic was developed by <a href="page.php?w=Carl_Friedrich_Gauss">Carl Friedrich Gauss</a> in his book <a href="page.php?w=Disquisitiones_Arithmeticae">Disquisitiones Arithmeticae</a>,</p><p>
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