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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
4396962501-6
69252191-613
251916-613-19
1963113-1970
6160-1970-439
So our multiplicative inverse is 70 mod 439 ≡ 70
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
1948450194010
845194469101
1946925601-2
69561131-23
561344-23-14
134313-1445
4140-1445-194
So our multiplicative inverse is 45 mod 194 ≡ 45
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
799217314801-3
2171481691-34
14869210-34-11
6910694-1170
10911-1170-81
919070-81799
So our multiplicative inverse is -81 mod 799 ≡ 718
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 ≡ 789 × 69-1 (mod 439) ≡ 789 × 70 (mod 439) ≡ 355 (mod 439)
x ≡ 12 × 845-1 (mod 194) ≡ 12 × 45 (mod 194) ≡ 152 (mod 194)
x ≡ 209 × 217-1 (mod 799) ≡ 209 × 718 (mod 799) ≡ 649 (mod 799)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 439 × 194 × 799 = 68047634
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=68047634/439=155006,   M2=M/m2=68047634/194=350761,   M3=M/m3=68047634/799=85166
  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
    4391550060439010
    15500643935339101
    43939111001-11
    3910391-1134
    10911-1134-45
    919034-45439
    So our multiplicative inverse is -45 mod 439 ≡ 394
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    1943507610194010
    35076119418089101
    194921501-21
    95141-2122
    5411-2122-43
    414022-43194
    So our multiplicative inverse is -43 mod 194 ≡ 151
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    799851660799010
    85166799106472101
    799472132701-1
    47232711451-12
    327145237-12-5
    145373342-517
    373413-517-22
    34311117-22259
    3130-22259-799
    So our multiplicative inverse is 259 mod 799 ≡ 259
    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
    =  (355 × 155006 × 394 +
       152 × 350761 × 151 +
       649 × 85166 × 259)   mod 68047634
    = 20174600 (mod 68047634)


    So our answer is 20174600 (mod 68047634).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 20174600
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
69x (mod 439) ≡ 789 (mod 439)
845x (mod 194) ≡ 12 (mod 194)
217x (mod 799) ≡ 209 (mod 799)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 20174600.