diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/acir_context/mod.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/acir_context/mod.rs
index 64d4ad31231..cc0c74b1384 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/acir_context/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/acir_context/mod.rs
@@ -1076,23 +1076,11 @@ impl<F: AcirField> AcirContext<F> {
         &mut self,
         lhs: AcirVar,
         rhs: AcirVar,
-        typ: NumericType,
         bit_size: u32,
         predicate: AcirVar,
     ) -> Result<AcirVar, RuntimeError> {
-        match typ {
-            NumericType::Unsigned { .. } => {
-                let (_, remainder_var) =
-                    self.euclidean_division_var(lhs, rhs, bit_size, predicate)?;
-                Ok(remainder_var)
-            }
-            NumericType::Signed { .. } => {
-                unreachable!("Signed modulo should have been removed before ACIRgen")
-            }
-            NumericType::NativeField => {
-                unreachable!("cannot module fields. This should have been caught by the frontend")
-            }
-        }
+        let (_, remainder_var) = self.euclidean_division_var(lhs, rhs, bit_size, predicate)?;
+        Ok(remainder_var)
     }
 
     /// Constrains the `AcirVar` variable to be of type `NumericType`.
@@ -1182,8 +1170,11 @@ impl<F: AcirField> AcirContext<F> {
         // - We assert at the beginning that `2^{max_bits+1}` does not overflow the field, so neither does c.
 
         // Ensure that 2^{max_bits + 1} is less than the field size
-        //
-        // TODO(https://github.com/noir-lang/noir/issues/10257): perhaps this should be a user error, instead of an assert
+        // In fact, `more_than_eq_var` is either called directly with the bit_size of an unsigned
+        // type, or via `less_than_var` which is also called with the bit_size of an unsigned type
+        // or with 64, so we can also assume that max_bits is at most 128, in which case the field
+        // size should be 129 or less for this assertion to fail.
+        assert!(max_bits <= 128);
         assert!(max_bits + 1 < F::max_num_bits());
 
         let two_max_bits = self.add_constant(power_of_two::<F>(max_bits));
diff --git a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/mod.rs b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/mod.rs
index 63a00d05f0d..33344f2e470 100644
--- a/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/mod.rs
+++ b/compiler/noirc_evaluator/src/acir/mod.rs
@@ -717,7 +717,6 @@ impl<'a> Context<'a> {
             panic!("Checked signed operations should all be removed before ACIRgen")
         }
 
-        let bit_count = num_type.bit_size::<FieldElement>();
         let result = match binary.operator {
             BinaryOp::Add { .. } => self.acir_context.add_var(lhs, rhs),
             BinaryOp::Sub { .. } => self.acir_context.sub_var(lhs, rhs),
@@ -727,15 +726,24 @@ impl<'a> Context<'a> {
             // this Eq instruction is being used for a constrain statement
             BinaryOp::Eq => self.acir_context.eq_var(lhs, rhs),
             BinaryOp::Lt => match num_type {
-                NumericType::Signed { .. } => {
-                    panic!("ICE - signed less than should have been removed before ACIRgen")
+                NumericType::Unsigned { bit_size } => {
+                    self.acir_context.less_than_var(lhs, rhs, bit_size)
+                }
+                _ => {
+                    panic!("ICE: unexpected binary type for Lt operation: {num_type:?}")
                 }
-                _ => self.acir_context.less_than_var(lhs, rhs, bit_count),
             },
             BinaryOp::Xor => self.acir_context.xor_var(lhs, rhs, num_type),
             BinaryOp::And => self.acir_context.and_var(lhs, rhs, num_type),
             BinaryOp::Or => self.acir_context.or_var(lhs, rhs, num_type),
-            BinaryOp::Mod => self.acir_context.modulo_var(lhs, rhs, num_type, bit_count, predicate),
+            BinaryOp::Mod => match num_type {
+                NumericType::Unsigned { bit_size } => {
+                    self.acir_context.modulo_var(lhs, rhs, bit_size, predicate)
+                }
+                _ => {
+                    panic!("ICE: unexpected binary type for Mod operation: {num_type:?}")
+                }
+            },
             BinaryOp::Shl | BinaryOp::Shr => unreachable!(
                 "ICE - bit shift operators do not exist in ACIR and should have been replaced"
             ),