Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we're programmers! That's what code generation is for.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious,

I've been trying to figure out roughly how many lines of code that would equal out to but I've run out of fingers.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 points 19 hours ago

Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

[–] koper@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

If it works it works. You mathematicians just don't understand the pragmatics. What is tech debt?