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Revision as of 19:22, 20 December 2024
The objective of the extended Euclidean algorithm is to compute the greatest common divisor of two natural numbers and solve Bézout’s identity
- .
Given two positive integers a and b, this Diophantine equation is solved for integers x, y, which will not both be positive, and .
If , the algorithm yields the modular multiplicative inverses[1] of a mod b and b mod a since in this case the congruences
and
are solved. Here is a naïve C++ implementation of pseudocode found on Wikipedia.
#include <iostream>
#include <cassert>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
long int a,b,q,r0,r1,r,s0=1,s1,s=0,t0=0,t1,t=1;
std::cout << "Enter two integers: ";
std::cin >> a >> b;
assert(a > 0 && b > 0); r0=a; r=b;
while(r>0) {
q=r0/r;
r1=r0-q*r; r0=r; r=r1;
s1=s0-q*s; s0=s; s=s1;
t1=t0-q*t; t0=t; t=t1;
}
std::cout
<< "Bézout coefficients: "
<< s0 << ", " << t0 << std::endl
<< "greatest common divisor: "
<< r0 << std::endl
<< "quotients by the gcd: "
<< t << ", "<< s << std::endl;
return 0;
}
- ↑ Bufalo, Michele, Daniele Bufalo, and Giuseppe Orlando. “A Note on the Computation of the Modular Inverse for Cryptography” Axioms, vol. 10, no. 2(116), 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/10/2/116