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Use the calculator below to get a step-by-step calculation of the Chinese Remainder Theory. Just enter the numbers you would like and press "Calculate" .


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Transform the equations

You used one or more of the fields on the left, so your equations are of the form bx ≡ a mod m.
We want them to be of the form x ≡ a mod m, so we need to move the values on the left to the right side of the equation.
For a more detailed explanation about how this works, see this part of our page about how to execute the Chinese Remainder algorithm.

First, we calculate the inverses of the leftmost value on each row:

nbqr t1t2t3
1017570101010
757101750101
101502101-2
5015001-2101
So our multiplicative inverse is -2 mod 101 ≡ 99
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
88178319801-1
783987971-18
989711-18-9
9719708-9881
So our multiplicative inverse is -9 mod 881 ≡ 872
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
76967619301-1
676937251-18
9325318-18-25
2518178-2533
18724-2533-91
741333-91124
4311-91124-215
3130124-215769
So our multiplicative inverse is -215 mod 769 ≡ 554
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

Click on any row to reveal a more detailed calculation of each multiplicative inverse.

Now that we now the inverses, let's move the leftmost value on each row to the right of the equation:

x ≡ 695 × 757-1 (mod 101) ≡ 695 × 99 (mod 101) ≡ 24 (mod 101)
x ≡ 778 × 783-1 (mod 881) ≡ 778 × 872 (mod 881) ≡ 46 (mod 881)
x ≡ 445 × 676-1 (mod 769) ≡ 445 × 554 (mod 769) ≡ 450 (mod 769)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 101 × 881 × 769 = 68426389
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=68426389/101=677489,   M2=M/m2=68426389/881=77669,   M3=M/m3=68426389/769=88981
  3. We now calculate the modular multiplicative inverses M1-1 to M3-1
    Have a look at the page that explains how to calculate modular multiplicative inverse.
    Using, for example, the Extended Euclidean Algorithm, we will find that:

    nbqr t1t2t3
    1016774890101010
    677489101670782101
    1018211901-1
    8219461-15
    19631-15-16
    61605-16101
    So our multiplicative inverse is -16 mod 101 ≡ 85
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    881776690881010
    7766988188141101
    88114163501-6
    14135411-625
    351350-625-881
    So our multiplicative inverse is 25 mod 881 ≡ 25
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    769889810769010
    88981769115546101
    769546122301-1
    54622321001-13
    223100223-13-7
    10023483-731
    23827-731-69
    871131-69100
    7170-69100-769
    So our multiplicative inverse is 100 mod 769 ≡ 100
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com
  4. Now we can calculate x with the equation we saw earlier
    x = (a1 × M1 × M1-1   +   a2 × M2 × M2-1   + ... +   ak × Mk × Mk-1)   mod M
    =  (24 × 677489 × 85 +
       46 × 77669 × 25 +
       450 × 88981 × 100)   mod 68426389
    = 1430790 (mod 68426389)


    So our answer is 1430790 (mod 68426389).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 1430790
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
757x (mod 101) ≡ 695 (mod 101)
783x (mod 881) ≡ 778 (mod 881)
676x (mod 769) ≡ 445 (mod 769)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 1430790.