PinkAppleFlower

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Welcome to Wikipedia

Hi PinkAppleFlower, and welcome to a great collaborative project. It is great to see someone with energy and enthusiasm, as at the article Modular multiplicative inverse.

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Do not try to start an edit war

What possible reason did you have to revert a simple bookkeeping edit that I made on a talk page. I did not change any words, just clarified by spacing so that your responses could be more clearly read. I did not do this lightly and I did apologize before doing it. --Bill Cherowitzo (talk) 04:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

I am not trying to start an edit war...I improved your changes by deleting my interleaved comments as you suggested, and then created my own section. I am sorry I did not notice the indentation changes you made...I thought it was more important to not edit another author's comments on a talk page. Thank you for pointing out the modulo link error and I will try and respond to your comments tomorrow. PinkAppleFlower (talk) 05:05, 20 January 2017 (UTC)