User Guide

For information on enclosing keywords in right single quotes ('), see
Delaying Evaluation (page 317).
You can also use the convert/base command.
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Note: The convert/base command returns a list of digit values in order of
increasing significance.
Finite Rings and Fields
Maple supports computations over the integers modulo m.
The mod operator evaluates an expression over the integers modulo m.
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By default, the mod operator uses positive representation (modp command).
Symmetric representation is available using the mods command.
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For information on setting symmetric representation as the default, refer to
the ?mod help page.
The modular arithmetic operators are listed in Table 3.2.
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