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		DominikPeters on Sept 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rouille > I assume in China they don’t call it Chinese remainder theorem Apparently they are! “中国剩余定理” according to Wikipedia, where the first two letters mean China. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E5%89%A9%E4...

arthur2e5 on Sept 12, 2021 [–]

In elementary school it was just 余数定理 without the Chinese. Well, academia sounding more foreign is normal here.

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