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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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:
New equations
So now we have the following equations of the form x ≡ a (mod m):
x ≡ 151 (mod 237) x ≡ 138 (mod 451) x ≡ 57 (mod 577)
Now the actual calculation
Find the common modulus M M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk =
237 × 451 × 577 = 61673799
We calculate the numbers M1 to M3 M1=M/m1=61673799/237=260227, M2=M/m2=61673799/451=136749, M3=M/m3=61673799/577=106887
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:
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 = (151 × 260227 × 1 + 138 × 136749 × 249 + 57 × 106887 × 256) mod 61673799 = 7231021 (mod 61673799)
So our answer is 7231021 (mod 61673799).
Verification
So we found that x ≡ 7231021
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
541x (mod 237) ≡ 637 (mod 237) 541x (mod 451) ≡ 694 (mod 451) 921x (mod 577) ≡ 567 (mod 577)
Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 7231021.