Thursday, September 3, 2009

3.2-3.3, due on September 4

  • The most difficult thing from this section of reading for me was figuring out congruences. I was never very good with congruences in 190 and we didn't have much practice with them. With more practice and study I think I'll be able to understand congruences more, but they're a little tough to get a handle on.
  • The most interesting part of this material for me was the Extended Euclidean Algorithm. I don't remember ever seeing this before, but maybe I've just forgotten about it. It was fascinating for me to see how the algorithm works backwards.

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