Chinese remainder theorem

name

Etymology

The earliest known formulation of the theorem was in the Chinese Sun Zi's Mathematical Manual circa 400 AD.

Definitions

  1. A theorem stating that, if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an…

    A theorem stating that, if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Chinese remainder theorem. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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