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Residue

The term residue has several meanings in mathematics.

In complex analysis, the residue is a complex number which describes the behavior of path integrals of a meromorphic function around a singularity.

In modular arithmetic, the residue of a number n base b is the remainder r after the largest multiple mb of b no greater than n has been subtracted from n.



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