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Cryptography in C and C++, Second Edition
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Cryptography in C and C++, Second Edition

by Michael Welschenbach
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
9h 23m
English
Apress
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Chapter 5. Modular Arithmetic: Calculating with Residue Classes

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure...

——Willa Cather, Not Under Forty, "Miss Jewett"

We begin this chapter with a discussion of the principle of division with remainder. In relation to this we shall explain the significance of these remainders, their possible applications, and how one calculates with them. In order for the functions to be introduced later to be understandable, we begin with a bit of algebra.

We have seen that in division with remainder of an integer a € • by a natural number 0 < m € • one has the unique representation

Equation 5.1. 

Here r is called the remainder after division of a by m or the residue of ...

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