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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
7819950781010
9957811214101
781214313901-3
2141391751-34
13975164-34-7
75641114-711
641159-711-62
1191211-6273
9241-6273-354
212073-354781
So our multiplicative inverse is -354 mod 781 ≡ 427
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
1518780151010
8781515123101
15112312801-1
123284111-15
281126-15-11
116155-1116
6511-1116-27
515016-27151
So our multiplicative inverse is -27 mod 151 ≡ 124
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
77963122301-12
63232171-1225
231716-1225-37
1762525-3799
6511-3799-136
515099-136779
So our multiplicative inverse is -136 mod 779 ≡ 643
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 ≡ 840 × 995-1 (mod 781) ≡ 840 × 427 (mod 781) ≡ 201 (mod 781)
x ≡ 205 × 878-1 (mod 151) ≡ 205 × 124 (mod 151) ≡ 52 (mod 151)
x ≡ 42 × 63-1 (mod 779) ≡ 42 × 643 (mod 779) ≡ 520 (mod 779)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 781 × 151 × 779 = 91868249
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=91868249/781=117629,   M2=M/m2=91868249/151=608399,   M3=M/m3=91868249/779=117931
  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
    7811176290781010
    117629781150479101
    781479130201-1
    47930211771-12
    3021771125-12-3
    1771251522-35
    12552221-35-13
    52212105-1331
    211021-1331-75
    10110031-75781
    So our multiplicative inverse is -75 mod 781 ≡ 706
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    1516083990151010
    608399151402920101
    1512071101-7
    2011191-78
    11912-78-15
    92418-1568
    2120-1568-151
    So our multiplicative inverse is 68 mod 151 ≡ 68
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    7791179310779010
    117931779151302101
    779302217501-2
    30217511271-23
    175127148-23-5
    127482313-513
    4831117-513-18
    311711413-1831
    171413-1831-49
    1434231-49227
    3211-49227-276
    2120227-276779
    So our multiplicative inverse is -276 mod 779 ≡ 503
    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
    =  (201 × 117629 × 706 +
       52 × 608399 × 68 +
       520 × 117931 × 503)   mod 91868249
    = 80737638 (mod 91868249)


    So our answer is 80737638 (mod 91868249).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 80737638
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
995x (mod 781) ≡ 840 (mod 781)
878x (mod 151) ≡ 205 (mod 151)
63x (mod 779) ≡ 42 (mod 779)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 80737638.