Sunday, April 3, 2016

elementary number theory - Euclid Algorithm to Find Muliplicative Inverse


Here I am trying to find the multiplicative inverse of 19 respect to 29.


$$19x \equiv 1 \pmod{29} $$


What I tried


\begin{align*} 29 &= 1(19) + 10\\\ 19 &= 1(10) + 9\\\ 10 &= 1(9) + 1. \end{align*}


From backtracking, I came up with the



\begin{align*} 1 &= 2(29) - 3(19)\\\ \end{align*}


However, 3 is not a multiplicative inverse of the 29. Where am I making a mistake?


I looked many answers including this answer; however, couldn't figure out my mistake.


Answer



What you have found indeed is that $-3\equiv 26$ is the multiplicative inverse of $19$ $\mod 29$.


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