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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
5239560523010
9565231433101
52343319001-1
433904731-15
9073117-15-6
7317455-629
17532-629-93
522129-93215
2120-93215-523
So our multiplicative inverse is 215 mod 523 ≡ 215
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
4779500477010
9504771473101
4774731401-1
473411811-1119
4140-1119-477
So our multiplicative inverse is 119 mod 477 ≡ 119
Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

nbqr t1t2t3
509399111001-1
3991103691-14
11069141-14-5
69411284-59
4128113-59-14
2813229-1437
13261-1437-236
212037-236509
So our multiplicative inverse is -236 mod 509 ≡ 273
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 ≡ 689 × 956-1 (mod 523) ≡ 689 × 215 (mod 523) ≡ 126 (mod 523)
x ≡ 930 × 950-1 (mod 477) ≡ 930 × 119 (mod 477) ≡ 6 (mod 477)
x ≡ 138 × 399-1 (mod 509) ≡ 138 × 273 (mod 509) ≡ 8 (mod 509)


Now the actual calculation

  1. Find the common modulus M
    M = m1 × m2 × ... × mk = 523 × 477 × 509 = 126980739
  2. We calculate the numbers M1 to M3
    M1=M/m1=126980739/523=242793,   M2=M/m2=126980739/477=266207,   M3=M/m3=126980739/509=249471
  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
    5232427930523010
    242793523464121101
    52312143901-4
    12139341-413
    39493-413-121
    431113-121134
    3130-121134-523
    So our multiplicative inverse is 134 mod 523 ≡ 134
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    4772662070477010
    26620747755841101
    47741112601-11
    41261151-1112
    2615111-1112-23
    15111412-2335
    11423-2335-93
    431135-93128
    3130-93128-477
    So our multiplicative inverse is 128 mod 477 ≡ 128
    Source: ExtendedEuclideanAlgorithm.com

    nbqr t1t2t3
    5092494710509010
    24947150949061101
    5096182101-8
    61212191-817
    211912-817-25
    1929117-25242
    2120-25242-509
    So our multiplicative inverse is 242 mod 509 ≡ 242
    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
    =  (126 × 242793 × 134 +
       6 × 266207 × 128 +
       8 × 249471 × 242)   mod 126980739
    = 88452501 (mod 126980739)


    So our answer is 88452501 (mod 126980739).


Verification

So we found that x ≡ 88452501
If this is correct, then the following statements (i.e. the original equations) are true:
956x (mod 523) ≡ 689 (mod 523)
950x (mod 477) ≡ 930 (mod 477)
399x (mod 509) ≡ 138 (mod 509)

Let's see whether that's indeed the case if we use x ≡ 88452501.