Lets say I have a Big Integer A and an integer B . I want to calculate A mod B in O(number_of_digits_in(A)) complexity.
How can I do that?
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Lets say I have a Big Integer A and an integer B . I want to calculate A mod B in O(number_of_digits_in(A)) complexity.
How can I do that?
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Modular arithmetic is a great help here.
Let's say that A = 10k - 1·ak - 1 + 10k - 2·ak - 2 + ... + 100·a0, where ai are digits of A. You have to calculate that expression modulo B. Note that you can easily calculate in linear time: just start with 100 = 1 and then multiply by ten (and apply modulo afterwards) until you have all k values. Now the expression is slightly simpler: you only have small numbers, so you can just calculate it straightforwardly, applying modulo after each operation.
Another approach: A = a0 + 10·(a2 + 10·(... + 10·(ak - 1)...)). You start calculating that expression from inside: ak - 1, then you multiply it by ten and add ak - 2, and so on until a0.