Curious assignment behaviour

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 18-Oct-2001 Rainer Deyke wrote:
 >  "David C. Ullrich" <ullrich at math.okstate.edu> wrote in message
 >  news:3bcdbb39.1987133892 at news...
 > > What if you already have x = 42 and y = 24, and you
 > > say "let x = y" ? Does that set x to 24 (yes) or
 > > does it set y to 42?
 >  
 >  It means "consider the case 42 = 24".

And thus, we might be in the ring of integers mod n, where n is any 
integer among 2, 3, 6, 9, and 18.

/Mikael

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