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Undid revision 979070271 by Spitzak (talk) See Modular arithmetic#Examples. The numbers on both sides of the ≡ symbol can be greater than the modulus.
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Undid revision 979079891 by Peter M. Brown (talk) No idea what you are thinking. 960 WILL NOT turn into 448, it will either turn into 960 or 192. 448 will NOT turn into 960 (pi), it will either turn into 448 or 192. 448 is the glottal stop, but 192 (the only possible error) is À.
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:::::*In Wordpad, Alt+960 and Alt+0960 ''both'' produce a {{char|π}}, which is the correct Unicode character. The high-order zero doesn't matter.
:::::*Same counterexample. Alt+960 works just fine.
:::::*960 ≡ 448192 modulo 256, but <u>in Word and Wordpad</u> Alt+448192 andproduces Alt+0448 both produce, nota {{char|π}},(per butCP437) theand glottalAlt+0192 stopproduces an {{char|ǀÀ}} (per Unicode and CP1252). Modulo 256 has nothing to do with it.
:::::*Numbers greater than 62235 ''might'' not work? I've produced two cases of numbers that big that do work (one here and one in the article). Why is Spitzak so suspicious of the others?
::::I agree with {{u|John Maynard Friedman}}, above, that we should not confuse "the numeracy-challenged with incomprehensible talk of modulo 255," assuming that he really means 256. Spitzak evidently disagrees, as he has introduced such considerations into the article. However, [[Unicode input]] is, or should be, entirely concerned with Unicode input, with ways to produce characters when one knows their code points. Modulo 256, applicable to [[Notepad]], outgoing [[Gmail]]s, etc. could be discussed in the [[Alt code]] article, but it is not relevant here, because