parity-common/uint/examples/modular.rs

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// Copyright 2015-2017 Parity Technologies
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
#[cfg(feature="std")]
extern crate core;
#[macro_use]
extern crate crunchy;
#[macro_use]
extern crate uint;
construct_uint!(U256, 4);
fn main() {
// Example modular arithmetic using bigint U256 primitives
// imagine the field 0..p
// where the p is defined below
// (it's a prime!)
let p = U256::from_dec_str(
"38873241744847760218045702002058062581688990428170398542849190507947196700873"
).expect("p to be a good number in the example");
// then, on this field,
// (p-1) + (p+1) = 0
// (p - 1) mod p
let p_minus_1 = (p - 1) % p;
// (p + 1) mod p
let p_plus_1 = (p + 1) % p;
// ((p - 1) mod p + (p + 1) mod p) mod p
let sum = (p_minus_1 + p_plus_1) % p;
assert_eq!(sum, 0.into());
// on this field,
// (p-1) + (p-1) = p-2
let p_minus_1 = (p - 1) % p;
let sum = (p_minus_1 + p_minus_1) % p;
assert_eq!(sum, p - 2);
// on this field,
// (p-1) * 3 = p-3
let p_minus_1 = (p - 1) % p;
// multiplication is a series of additions
let multiplicator = 3;
let mul = {
let mut result = p_minus_1;
for _ in 0..multiplicator-1 {
result = (p_minus_1 + result) % p;
}
result
};
assert_eq!(mul, p - 3);
}