It's funny to me that modular arithmetic was a major revelation to modern conputer scientists, whereas ancient babylonians were so comfortable with the idea of the modular multiplicative inverse that it was built right into the way they wrote numbers. 10 and 1/6 aren't just represented the same way, they act as the exact same number because 10 and 6 are each other's MI mod 60. That's hardcore AF.
![The Most Useful Curve in Mathematics [Logarithms]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OjIwCOevUew/mqdefault.jpg)
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It's funny to me that modular arithmetic was a major revelation to modern conputer scientists, whereas ancient babylonians were so comfortable with the idea of the modular multiplicative inverse that it was built right into the way they wrote numbers. 10 and 1/6 aren't just represented the same way, they act as the exact same number because 10 and 6 are each other's MI mod 60. That's hardcore AF.
Thank you.