modular tables

No, not a post about IKEA furniture. A while  ago I put up a post on colouring multiplication tables by assigning ranges of numbers a colour value. You end up with something that looks like a rainbow.

This image was made in Tinkerplots, so it was easy to go from a 10 x 10 table to a 50 x 50 table (removing the numbers and just keeping the colours, and shrinking each cell down a bit):

Inspired by the "Zn Multiplication visualizer" found here and mentioned here, and thinking about modular arithmetic from the last post, I decided to make a few more images.

If you take the values in this 50 x 50 table mod 9, you'll get this nice quilt - repeating in 9 x 9 blocks.

If you choose your mod value to line up with the width of the table (take the values mod 50) you get this:

The light blue along the bottom and the right side are all zeros - anything that is a multiple of 50, as the bottom and the far right side are, will have a remainder of 0 when you divide them by 50.

If you take the values mod 2500, then you get something that looks like the rainbow we started with - except for one square (maybe you can spot it, or figure out where it will be).

Here's a 75x75 table, mod 75, in shades of blue.