Department of Mathematical Sciences
Binghamton University

Math 330: Number Systems
Term Project

Section 01, Zaslavsky

Term Project Rules and Description

• The project is entirely your own work. Don't collaborate on it with anyone else. You may ask me questions, but I don't promise to answer them – it depends.
• The project involves reading, understanding, and answering questions about a part of the book that we have not studied. (It's an important topic to learn, too.)
• You will answer, as best you can, a series of questions about the topic. To answer them, read the section carefully and think about what you're reading.
• The project is 15% of the grade.

The due date is the last day of class, Friday, December 11, at 4:30 p.m..

Term Project Details

The topic is "modular arithmetic", which our book discusses in Section 6.2. You should start studying it as soon as possible. It's not essential to read that section but it will help. Some of Section 6.3 may also be of interest, but you don't need it to do the project.

In doing the project, you may use every definition, proposition, etc., that we did up to (and including) Section 6.1. You can use Section 6.2 to study, but don't base any of your work on results in 6.2, unless you proved them in working on the project.

The complete project is written out in this 2-page project description. [Dec. 5: There were errors! The m's and n's got mixed up. I fixed the problem. Download the corrected version now.]

"Where shall I begin?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said, "and stop when you get to the end."
—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland