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I am aware. It is typically represented as Z_5. They are called prime fields. I highly doubt wsxcde meant prime fields in their comment though. wsxcde seemed to be talking about th…

> The set over which the field is defined (Z or R) What? The set of all integers, Z, is not a field! R is. But Z isn't. Z is a ring, a commutative ring. I doubt you understand what…

> You literally cannot prove this fact from the Peano axioms because Peano arithmetic operates on natural numbers, not integers. Sure you can. With definitions! Define integers fro…

> Also, this post conflates the unary negation operator with negative numbers. -a is a standard way to represent additive inverse of an element in field. The point about "unary neg…

While this product of additive inverses property does follow from the field axioms, there is a short discussion in the blog comments at https://susam.in/blog/product-of-negatives/c…

I appreciate that answering questions in a grilling interview is more difficult than asking questions, but ... > “You don’t know? This was the largest data scandal with respect to …

> So I don’t know what the solution is to these types of accidental UI bugs. Obviously a scroll bar should be an acceptable solution? Why do designers hate scroll bars these days?

Prior to GMail, we used to check our "Junk" folder occasionally in whatever email service we used. When GMail arrived with its nice spam classification, it was great. Worked well, …