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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
81533242301-24
33231101-2425
231023-2425-74
1033125-74247
3130-74247-815
So our multiplicative inverse is 247 mod 815 ≡ 247
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
611206219901-2
206199171-23
1997283-23-86
73213-86175
3130-86175-611
So our multiplicative inverse is 175 mod 611 ≡ 175
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
89422101-22
41401-2289
So our multiplicative inverse is -22 mod 89 ≡ 67
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 ≡ 931 × 33-1 (mod 815) ≡ 931 × 247 (mod 815) ≡ 127 (mod 815)
x ≡ 287 × 206-1 (mod 611) ≡ 287 × 175 (mod 611) ≡ 123 (mod 611)
x ≡ 477 × 4-1 (mod 89) ≡ 477 × 67 (mod 89) ≡ 8 (mod 89)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 815 × 611 × 89 = 44318885
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=44318885/815=54379,   M2=M/m2=44318885/611=72535,   M3=M/m3=44318885/89=497965
  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
    815543790815010
    5437981566589101
    815589122601-1
    58922621371-13
    226137189-13-4
    137891483-47
    8948141-47-11
    4841177-1118
    41756-1118-101
    761118-101119
    6160-101119-815
    So our multiplicative inverse is 119 mod 815 ≡ 119
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    611725350611010
    72535611118437101
    611437117401-1
    4371742891-13
    17489185-13-4
    8985143-47
    854211-47-151
    41407-151611
    So our multiplicative inverse is -151 mod 611 ≡ 460
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    89497965089010
    49796589559510101
    89108901-8
    109111-89
    9190-89-89
    So our multiplicative inverse is 9 mod 89 ≡ 9
    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
    =  (127 × 54379 × 119 +
       123 × 72535 × 460 +
       8 × 497965 × 9)   mod 44318885
    = 42317372 (mod 44318885)


    So our answer is 42317372 (mod 44318885).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 42317372
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
33x (mod 815) ≡ 931 (mod 815)
206x (mod 611) ≡ 287 (mod 611)
4x (mod 89) ≡ 477 (mod 89)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 42317372.