Re: reverse of modulo (inverse?)
Markus Hutmacher <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:03:21 +0200
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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 _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs