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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
8308231701-1
823711741-1118
7413-1118-119
4311118-119237
3130-119237-830
So our multiplicative inverse is 237 mod 830 ≡ 237
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
55950215701-1
502578461-19
5746111-19-10
4611429-1049
11251-1049-255
212049-255559
So our multiplicative inverse is -255 mod 559 ≡ 304
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
593440115301-1
44015321341-13
153134119-13-4
13419713-431
191190-431-593
So our multiplicative inverse is 31 mod 593 ≡ 31
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 ≡ 995 × 823-1 (mod 830) ≡ 995 × 237 (mod 830) ≡ 95 (mod 830)
x ≡ 390 × 502-1 (mod 559) ≡ 390 × 304 (mod 559) ≡ 52 (mod 559)
x ≡ 580 × 440-1 (mod 593) ≡ 580 × 31 (mod 593) ≡ 190 (mod 593)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 830 × 559 × 593 = 275134210
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=275134210/830=331487,   M2=M/m2=275134210/559=492190,   M3=M/m3=275134210/593=463970
  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
    8303314870830010
    331487830399317101
    830317219601-2
    31719611211-23
    196121175-23-5
    121751463-58
    7546129-58-13
    46291178-1321
    2917112-1321-34
    17121521-3455
    12522-3455-144
    522155-144343
    2120-144343-830
    So our multiplicative inverse is 343 mod 830 ≡ 343
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    5594921900559010
    492190559880270101
    55927021901-2
    270191441-229
    19443-229-118
    431129-118147
    3130-118147-559
    So our multiplicative inverse is 147 mod 559 ≡ 147
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    5934639700593010
    463970593782244101
    593244210501-2
    2441052341-25
    1053433-25-17
    3431115-17192
    3130-17192-593
    So our multiplicative inverse is 192 mod 593 ≡ 192
    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
    =  (95 × 331487 × 343 +
       52 × 492190 × 147 +
       190 × 463970 × 192)   mod 275134210
    = 124129915 (mod 275134210)


    So our answer is 124129915 (mod 275134210).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 124129915
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
823x (mod 830) ≡ 995 (mod 830)
502x (mod 559) ≡ 390 (mod 559)
440x (mod 593) ≡ 580 (mod 593)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 124129915.