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the leftover that refuses to divide cleanly, the math equivalent of unfinished business
means The part that is left over after something has been taken away, divided, or used up — in arithmetic, the bit that won't fit evenly into a division.
from From Old French 'remaindre,' to remain, which traces back to Latin 'remanere' — 're-' (back) plus 'manere' (to stay, to abide). So at its heart it means 'what stays behind.' The same 'manere' lives on in 'mansion' (a place you stay) and 'permanent' (staying through). 'Remainder' itself entered English through Anglo-French legal language, where it named the part of an estate left to pass on after a prior interest ended — the leftover, formalized.
- modular fame
- Clocks run entirely on remainders after 12
- zero verdict
- A remainder of zero means perfect divisibility
- crypto guard
- Modular remainders power internet encryption
- book graveyard
- Unsold books become discounted remainders
- ancient roots
- Euclid used remainders to find greatest common divisors
remainder theorem — polynomial division concept: if p(x) is divided by (x-a), the remainder equals p(a)
remainder estate — property law: what passes to a remainderman after a life estate ends, e.g., house to john for life, then to mary