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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
1038950103010
895103871101
1037113201-1
7132271-13
32744-13-13
74133-1316
4311-1316-29
313016-29103
So our multiplicative inverse is -29 mod 103 ≡ 74
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
4679220467010
9224671455101
46745511201-1
4551237111-138
121111-138-39
11111038-39467
So our multiplicative inverse is -39 mod 467 ≡ 428
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
727511121601-1
5112162791-13
21679258-13-7
79581213-710
5821216-710-27
21161510-2737
16531-2737-138
515037-138727
So our multiplicative inverse is -138 mod 727 ≡ 589
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 ≡ 499 × 895-1 (mod 103) ≡ 499 × 74 (mod 103) ≡ 52 (mod 103)
x ≡ 23 × 922-1 (mod 467) ≡ 23 × 428 (mod 467) ≡ 37 (mod 467)
x ≡ 210 × 511-1 (mod 727) ≡ 210 × 589 (mod 727) ≡ 100 (mod 727)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 103 × 467 × 727 = 34969427
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=34969427/103=339509,   M2=M/m2=34969427/467=74881,   M3=M/m3=34969427/727=48101
  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
    1033395090103010
    339509103329621101
    1032141901-4
    2119121-45
    19291-45-49
    21205-49103
    So our multiplicative inverse is -49 mod 103 ≡ 54
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    467748810467010
    74881467160161101
    467161214501-2
    1611451161-23
    1451691-23-29
    1611603-29467
    So our multiplicative inverse is -29 mod 467 ≡ 438
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    727481010727010
    4810172766119101
    72711961301-6
    11913921-655
    13261-655-336
    212055-336727
    So our multiplicative inverse is -336 mod 727 ≡ 391
    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
    =  (52 × 339509 × 54 +
       37 × 74881 × 438 +
       100 × 48101 × 391)   mod 34969427
    = 26127753 (mod 34969427)


    So our answer is 26127753 (mod 34969427).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 26127753
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
895x (mod 103) ≡ 499 (mod 103)
922x (mod 467) ≡ 23 (mod 467)
511x (mod 727) ≡ 210 (mod 727)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 26127753.