Reading 11: Primes, Modular Arithmetic

Everyone:

Next week, we will work on a problem related to number theory and will focus on primes and modular arithmetic. Understanding these concepts will be necessary to solve Challenge 21.

Reading

The readings for this week are:

  1. Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    • 21 Number theory

Quiz

Once you have done the readings, answer the following Reading 11 Quiz questions:

Submission

To submit you work, follow the same process outlined in Reading 00:

$ git checkout master                 # Make sure we are in master branch
$ git pull --rebase                   # Make sure we are up-to-date with GitLab

$ git checkout -b reading11           # Create reading11 branch and check it out

$ cd reading11                        # Go into reading11 folder
$ $EDITOR answers.json                # Edit your answers.json file

$ ../.scripts/submit.py               # Check reading11 quiz
Submitting reading11 assignment ...
Submitting reading11 quiz ...
     Q01 0.50
     Q02 0.50
     Q03 0.50
     Q04 0.50
   Score 2.00

$ git add answers.json                # Add answers.json to staging area
$ git commit -m "Reading 11: Done"    # Commit work

$ git push -u origin reading11        # Push branch to GitLab

Remember to create a merge request and assign the appropriate TA from the Reading 11 TA List.