u/dcterr

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When I was a graduate student, I took notes for one of my math classes, and I used mod as a verb. For instance, I wrote something like, "Modding 43 by 5 yields 3.", but my professor corrected me, claiming that "mod" isn't a verb, and that I should say someting like, "Computing 43 mod 5 yields 3.". But I think using mod as a verb is more in line with the other mathematical operators, like adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, all of which are used as verbs, and it's often much simpler to say "modding by ..." than "computing the result modulo ...". What do you guys think?

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