Saturday, June 19, 2021

Sun Tzu Chinese Remainder Theorem(He was not General who wrote art of war)

 The earliest known statement of the theorem, as a problem with specific numbers, appears in the 3rd-century book Sun-tzu Suan-ching by the Chinese mathematician Sun-tzu (He was not General who wrote art of war)

There are certain things whose number is unknown. If we count them by threes, we have two left over; by fives, we have three left over; and by sevens, two are left over. How many things are there

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