Tuesday, January 12, 2016

2.3, Due January 13th

1)  When a and n are not relatively prime, I guess I don't really understand why the equation ax-b may have no solutions or several solutions in Zn.
2)  I guess it makes sense, since we use the Euclidean algorithm to find the inverse of a certain number mod(n), that we would also use that to prove that the inverse always exists.  Simple enough, but when I first saw it I wasn't exactly sure as to how we would prove it.

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