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Editorial for BSUIR X semifinals
By ZergTricky, history, 19 months ago, In English

Hi codeforces, as there is no editorial, hope someone can help to solve problems D, E, F from BSUIR Open X. Reload. Semifinal

I am personally very interested in problem D, as I can't compute something like $$$2 \hat{}\hat{} {10^{18}}$$$ mod $$$(10^9 + 7)$$$ even by hand.

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I'm interesting problem C,But i can't solve up to now,If you solved problem C, Could you explain your idea?

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    I solved this problem, I decided this problem, now I honestly don't remember how it is solved, but here's the code, you can try to figure it out:

    ll a, b, x;
cin >> a >> b >> x;
if (x <= a)
{
	cout << a + 1 - b + 1 << endl;
	ret;
}
cout << x - b + 1 << endl;
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From Fermat's little theorem we have.

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From merging the first two statements we have:

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Multiplying both sides by a^(p — 1) any number of times, we have

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multiplying both sides by some t:

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or equivalently:

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With this trick we can compute extremely large exponents under some modulo, precisely by taking the module of p — 1 of the exponent.

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Problem D can be solved using following two things:

Formula 1:

$$$ a^b \bmod m = \begin{cases} a^{b}, & \text{if } b < \phi(m) \\ a^{(b \bmod \phi(m)) + \phi(m)}, & \text{if } b \ge \phi(m) \end{cases} $$$

, where $$$\phi(m)$$$ — Euler's totient function. This is extension of Euler's theorem.

Formula 2:

$$$ ^{b}a \bmod m =~^{\min(b, C)}a \bmod m $$$

, where $$$C \approx 2 \cdot \log_2(m)$$$.

This two observations allows you to calculate $$$^{b}a \bmod m$$$ in time $$$O(log^2(m))$$$.

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