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Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Temporarily replace the 12 on a clock face with 0. The 12 hours of the clock now read 0, 1, 2, 3, … up to 11. If the time is eight o’clock, and you add 9 hours, what do you get? Well, you get five o’clock. So in this arithmetic, 8 + 9 = 5; or, as mathematicians say, 8 + 9 ≡ 5 (mod 12), pronounced “eight plus nine is congruent to five, modulo twelve.

John Derbyshire
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You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
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In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin
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