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8 statements · 25% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
3 identifiers linking modulo across the web's reference databases
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In mathematics, the term modulo is often used to assert that two distinct mathematical objects can be regarded as equivalent—if their difference is accounted for by an additional factor. It was initially introduced into mathematics in the context of modular arithmetic by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1801. Since then, the term has gained many meanings—some exact and some imprecise. For the most part, the term often occurs in statements of the form:A is the same as B modulo C