Re: reverse of modulo (inverse?)

Markus Hutmacher <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:03:21 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Am 06/14/2011 03:39 PM, schrieb [email protected]:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I'm not having much luck finding this, and it's been a long time since 
> college math, so I thought I'd throw it at you folks and cross my 
> fingers...
>
> I'm looking for an algorithm that reverses the modulo function. That 
> is, if x = y % 256, given x, what is y?
>
Hi,

there is no single result for your equation since there is an unlimited 
number of solutions.
In fact any number
         y=n*256 + x
will be a solution for you equation

Markus

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