Thanks Renato for the information.

Can you please provide some input on "how to improve on big size data
processing "?

Any pointer for it is most welcome

Thanks
-Amit Jain

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Renato Parente <[email protected]> wrote:

> a/b % mod = a* (b^-1) % mod
> Since mod = 10^9 + 7 is a prime, so it's 'cheap' to find (b^-1) % mod
> instead of checking every possible value.
> One of the ways it's noticing that, for any b,n such that n is a prime and
> b is not divisble by n, b^(n-1) = 1 (mod n). If you notice, b^(n-1) =
> b*b^(n-2), therefore, b^(n-2) is the modular inverse of b, that's why the
> formula is like that
>
> I hope you've understood :)
>
>
> On 27 February 2012 09:13, Mitesh Joshi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> problem find a/b modulo 10^9+7 ....
>> mod=10^9+7
>> bcoz a and b  some value which more than mod...
>>
>> so the solution uses a/b= ( (a%mod) * ( (b%mod) ^ mod-2 ) )  % mod
>> why.....
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