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by rcxdude 1102 days ago
Which is almost never wrapping at a power of two, unless you scale your coordinate system to optimise it.
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The quote I responded to was:

> Addition modulo N is used only in niche cases ...

and not modulo 2^N.

The point that I would make is that general purpose CPU's doing general everday tasks such as https connections, secure transfers, GIS mapping, etc are doing a great many more modulo operations than acknowledged above.