8 May
2011
8 May
'11
2:42 p.m.
On 5/8/11, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
... However I had not noticed before that --- to my disgust --- pigeonholing works even when the moduli are not prime: in which case, the inverse that my construction relies on may fail to exist!
Relax! The required inverses still exist, provided only that the moduli are coprime in pairs, not necessarily themselves prime. WFL