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Set $(a_0,b_0)=(a,b)$. At each iteration with $b_i>0$, compute the remainder $r_i=a_i\mathrm{mod}{b}_i$, then setStop at the first index $n$ with $b_n=0$ and return $a_n$. The positive second coordinates strictly decrease, so algorithm termination follows from the well-ordering principle. The equality of greatest common divisors established in (ii) is a loop invariant, and at termination it gives

The second coordinate after two iterations satisfieswhenever those two divisions are needed, by the same remainder bound, now applied to $b_i>b_{i+1}>0$. Let $m=\lfloor {\log }_{2}b\rfloor$. If the Euclidean algorithm has not already stopped after $2m$ iterations, then its positive second coordinate is at most $1$: for $m\ge 1$,For $m=0$ the original $b$ is already $1$. A second coordinate of $1$ requires just one more division. ConsequentlyThis removes dependence on the potentially much larger input $a$. It improves the scale ${\log }_2(ab)$ to one involving only the smaller input; the rounded numerical bound need not be smaller for every pair. One may always take the minimum of the bounds in (ii) and (iii).

By Euclidean division, write $a=qn+r$ and $b=sn+t$, with integers $q,s$ and $0\le r,t<n$. The hypothesis is $a\equiv b(\mathrm{mod}n)$. Apply the addition rule from part (b)(i) with $-qn\equiv -sn\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}n)$ to obtainTherefore $n\mid r-t$. But $-n<r-t<n$, and the only multiple of $n$ in that interval is zero. Henceso the two remainders agree.

For the requested Int-typed operation, remove the first element as well as its later multiples:On its intended input, p is positive, so the remainder is defined. An arbitrary list headed by zero lies outside this convention.

To enumerate literally all prime numbers, use unbounded Integer arithmetic:At each stage, the smallest remaining number has no smaller prime divisor and is therefore prime. Removing its larger multiples preserves every later prime and removes any composite number once its least prime divisor is processed. Lazy evaluation makes each requested finite prefix available. This implements the given repeated-filtering form of the sieve of Eratosthenes. A bounded Int stream can only cover representable values; Integer supplies the all-primes interpretation.

Use four working processor registers by packing the growing quotient into the vacated low bits of the shifting dividend. The following is A32 assembly language with conditional execution, an allowed instance of the question's general 32-bit Reduced instruction set computer. It is not restricted to the sixteen-bit encodings in the supplied Thumb instruction set table. On entry r0 is the dividend and r1 the positive divisor; r2 becomes the high remainder machine word and r3 counts iterations. The quotient is returned in r0 and the ordinary remainder remains in r2.

mov   r2, #0
mov   r3, #32
loop:
adds  r0, r0, r0
adcs  r2, r2, r2
cmp   r2, r1
subcs r2, r2, r1
adc   r0, r0, #0
subs  r3, r3, #1
bne   loop
bx    lr

Here subcs means conditional sub when arithmetic carry is set, without the flag-setting suffix. adc also preserves flags. Consequently the arithmetic carry from cmp survives until it is inserted as the next quotient bit. The loop has seven instructions, one of them conditional, and no data-dependent branch. Its sole branch is the backwards loop branch, taken 31 times. It uses no separate quotient processor register, zero processor register, temporary comparison processor register or saved arithmetic carry processor register. A Thumb instruction set rendering using conditional execution would need an explicit conditional-execution encoding such as it cs; that is an additional encoded instruction, not an unexplained free operation.

The packed restoring division loop invariant relates it to the displayed algorithm. Specifically, let $M=2^{32}$, let $a$ retain its original mathematical value, and let $k$ be the number of completed iterations. Define the processed prefix $p_k=\lfloor a/2^{32-k}\rfloor$, its quotient $Q_k=\lfloor p_k/b\rfloor$ and remainder $R_k=p_k-b{Q}_k$. The processor register loop invariant isThe two terms in the low machine word occupy disjoint bit positions. Its next outgoing arithmetic carry is therefore the next original dividend bit, not a quotient bit. adds shifts the low machine word; adcs doubles the high remainder and incorporates that dividend bit. cmp decides whether this trial remainder is at least the divisor; subcs performs the conditional subtraction, and adc appends its decision to the shifted quotient. This is exactly the doubling, compare/subtract and quotient-bit update, with the counter maintained separately. Before processing bit $k\le 32$, the trial remainder is at most $p_k<2^k\le M$, so the high-word addition does not require a hidden 33rd remainder bit for this 32-bit dividend problem. After 32 iterations the residual dividend portion is zero, giving the stated outputs.

There is a printed source error in the auxiliary bound. At the initial state, choosing valid inputs $a=b=1$ makes the printed strict inequality $r{2}^j<b{2}^{32}$ false. The algorithm instead preserves $0\le r<b{2}^{32}$ for its unpacked 64-bit variable, together with its printed equality loop invariant. Doubling and subtracting $b{2}^{32}$ when necessary preserves that corrected bound. At termination the equality becomes $a{2}^{32}=qb{2}^{32}+r$; since $r$ is then divisible by $2^{32}$, it gives $0\le a-qb<b$. This source error does not invalidate the algorithm or the packed implementation. The figure is mathematical pseudocode: its 2^32 denotes exponentiation, rather than C's XOR operator.

The displayed A32 routine assembled successfully with Clang and was disassembled to check the conditional and non-flag-setting forms. Its carry flag model was checked exhaustively at an eight-bit machine word size and against boundary and randomized 32-bit divisions. No native ARM architecture family execution is claimed.

One standard finite form of Taylor's theorem is the following. Suppose $f$ has continuous derivatives through order $m+1$ on an interval containing $a$ and $x$. Then, if $x\ne a$, there is some $\xi$ strictly between them such thatThe final term is the Lagrange remainder. At $x=a$ the identity holds directly with zero remainder. The finite expansion requires no assumption that an infinite Taylor series converges to $f$.

In positional notation, a numeral digit contributes its value multiplied by a weight determined by its position. Fix an integer radix $b\ge 2$. A finite string of numeral digits $d_n{d}_{n-1}\cdots d_0$, with $0\le d_j<b$, represents the nonnegative integerThe rightmost position has weight $b^0=1$; each move left multiplies the weight by $b$. This weight is the place value. For a nonzero integer, the canonical string has $d_n\ne 0$. Zero is written with the single numeral digit $0$. Leading zeros are permitted in a fixed-width display but omitted in the canonical form: $00205_{10}=205_{10}$. A negative integer is written with a separate minus sign and the positional notation for its absolute value; the minus sign is not a numeral digit.^[ref]

For example,The zero is essential inside this string: $25_{10}=25$, not $205$. It records that the tens position contributes nothing while keeping the hundreds and units in their proper positions. The same integer has binary representation

Repeated Euclidean division constructs the representation exactly. Set $N_0=N$. At each step writeKeep the remainder $d_j$ and continue with the integer quotient $N_{j+1}$. A positive quotient strictly decreases, so eventually it is zero. Substituting the successive equations back into the first gives $N=d_0+b{d}_1+b^2{d}_2+\cdots$: the numeral digits are obtained from right to left. The remainder modulo $b$ uniquely fixes $d_0$, and then the quotient uniquely fixes the remaining string by the same reasoning. This proves existence and uniqueness once leading zeros are excluded. The needed unique quotient and remainder are precisely the conclusion of the Euclidean division theorem.^[ref]

This finite expansion concerns nonnegative integers. Extending positional notation to fractional positions uses weights $b^{-1},b^{-2},\dots$ to the right of a point; an arbitrary real number need not have a finite digit string. In particular, the decimal representation $0.1$ represents $1/10$, while the base-two string $0.1_2$ represents $1/2$. The radix is part of the interpretation.

The benefit is compact arithmetic: $k$ positions can encode every nonnegative integer below $b^k$. To see the upper endpoint, fill all positions with $b-1$; the finite geometric series gives $(b-1)(1+b+\cdots +b^{k-1})=b^k-1$. Carrying in addition exchanges $b$ units of one place value for one unit of the next. Thus a short string stores a large count and also supplies an algorithm for computing with it.

A prime number is a positive integer $p>1$ whose only positive divisors are $1$ and $p$. The first ten prime numbers are $2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29$. In contrast, $12=3\cdot 4$ is a composite number because it has a positive divisor strictly between one and itself. The integer one is neither a prime number nor a composite number: the lower bound $p>1$ is part of the definition. Equivalently, the divisor function satisfies $\tau (p)=2$ for a prime number, whereas $\tau (1)=1$ and $\tau (n)\ge 3$ for every composite number $n$.

Prime numbers are the building blocks of positive integers under multiplication. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic says that every integer greater than one is a product of prime numbers, with a unique collection of factors when their order is ignored. For example, $12=2\cdot 2\cdot 3$ and $18=2\cdot 3\cdot 3$. Their common factors reveal the greatest common divisor $6$, and the combined maximum powers reveal the least common multiple $36$. A complicated divisibility question becomes a comparison of prime exponents.

There is also a useful finite test. If a composite number $n$ equals $ab$ with $1<a\le b$, then $a^2\le n$. Therefore some prime factor is at most $\sqrt{n}$, and trial division only needs to check prime numbers up to that square root. For $97$, checking $2,3,5,7$ suffices; none divides $97$, so it is a prime number. For $91$, the same test finds $7$, giving $91=7\cdot 13$. To find many prime numbers together, the sieve of Eratosthenes reuses the work by marking multiples.

The division with remainder calculations for $97$ make the test explicit:Since $9^2<97<10^2$, these are all the prime numbers at most its square root, and every remainder is nonzero. Thus the calculation certifies a prime number, without testing the integers $8,9,10,\dots ,96$ individually. In contrast, $91=7\cdot 13+0$ gives a prime factor and proves that $91$ is a composite number.

The definition has a long history. Book VII of Euclid's Elements distinguishes prime numbers from composite numbers through their possible measures; Book IX, Proposition 20 establishes that no finite list exhausts the prime numbers. The modern argument under Euclid's theorem needs only divisibility, so it proves an infinite conclusion without estimating how frequently prime numbers occur. ^{[ref] [ref]}.

A repdigit whose digits are all 1 in a specified positional notation of base $b$. Its value is the geometric series $R_b(k)=1+b+\cdots +b^{k-1}=(b^k-1)/(b-1)$. In base ten, appending one digit gives $R_{10}(k+1)=10R_{10}(k)+1$, so its remainder modulo $n$ can be computed by a recurrence relation without constructing the full integer.

For a smooth delayed-transfer epidemic model, the incidence $rI(t-\tau )S(t-\tau )$ equals $rIS-r\tau (\dot{I}S+I\dot{S})+O({\tau }^2)$. Substituting the zero-delay equations only inside the correction gives $rIS+\tau rIS\{a+r(I-S)\}+O({\tau }^2)$. The correction has opposite signs in the receiving and departing compartments, preserving their transfer balance.

Repeated exponentiation with right association: ${}^{1}a=a$ and ${}^{h+1}a=a^{{}^{h}a}$. For example, ${}^{3}a=a^{a^a}$, rather than $(a^a{)}^a$. Computing its remainder modulo an integer often uses a chain of smaller exponent moduli; applying Euler's theorem requires checking its coprimality hypothesis at every level.

Terms of a sequence satisfying the third-order linear recurrence $T_{n+3}=T_n+T_{n+1}+T_{n+2}$. Initial values vary by convention; some counting problems specify $T_1=T_2=T_3=1$. To study divisibility by $m$, retain three consecutive remainders modulo $m$, a deterministic state with at most $m^3$ possibilities.

The Turán graph $T_r(n)$ is a complete multipartite graph with $r$ independent sets of sizes differing by at most one, with every cross edge present. Empty parts are allowed when $r>n$.^[ref]

In this example, the independent sets are $A=\{a_1,a_2,a_3\}$, $B=\{b_1,b_2,b_3\}$ and $C=\{c_1,c_2\}$. Count the edges between each pair of parts:Any four vertices put at least two in the same independent set, by the pigeonhole principle, so they cannot form $K_4$. Conversely, every choice of one vertex from each part is a triangle in a graph, giving $3\cdot 3\cdot 2=18$ triangles in a graph. Clique exclusion here does not mean triangle-free.

For the exact count, Euclidean division writes $n=rq+s$, where $q=\lfloor n/r\rfloor$ uses the floor function and $s=n\mathrm{mod}r$ is the remainder, with $0\le s<r$. There are $s$ parts of size $q+1$ and $r-s$ of size $q$. For any part sizes $a_1,\dots ,a_r$ summing to $n$, count cross edges by expanding the square:ThereforeFor $n=8,r=3$, we have $q=2,s=2$, giving $(64-2\cdot 9-1\cdot 4)/2=21$. The Quadratic Turan edge bound gives $64/3$ instead: the exact correction subtracts $1/3$.

Balancing is an integer optimization with a simple reason. If two part sizes satisfy $a\ge b+2$, moving one vertex from the larger part to the smaller decreases their contribution to the sum of squares byso it increases the edge count by $a-b-1$. For eight vertices, parts $4,2,2$ give $20$ edges; moving one vertex produces $3,3,2$ and $21$ edges. The most symmetric permitted sizes pack the most cross edges, which explains the sharp construction in Turán's theorem.

For an integer $n>1$, Wilson's theorem characterizes prime numbers by a factorial:The right side is an integer congruence, so the least nonnegative remainder is $n-1$. For example, $4!=24\equiv 4(\mathrm{mod}5)$ certifies that five is a prime number, whereas $5!=120\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}6)$ rules out six. ^[ref]

For an odd prime number $p$, each nonzero congruence class has a unique modular multiplicative inverse. Pair each class with its inverse: each distinct pair contributes one. A class is its own inverse exactly when $a^2\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}p)$; since $p\mid (a-1)(a+1)$, Euclid's lemma leaves only $a\equiv \pm 1$. Their product is $-1$. The prime number two needs a separate check: $1!\equiv -1(\mathrm{mod}2)$. Conversely, a proper divisor $1<d<n$ divides both $n$ and $(n-1)!$, so the displayed integer congruence would force $d\mid 1$, a contradiction. ^[ref]

The composite numbers have an even sharper pattern: $(n-1)!\equiv 0(\mathrm{mod}n)$ for every composite number $n>4$, but $3!=6\equiv 2(\mathrm{mod}4)$. To check the zero claim, write $n=ab$ with $1<a\le b<n$. If $a<b$, both occur as different factors in the factorial. If $a=b\ge 3$, the different factors $a$ and $2a$ both occur since $2a<a^2=n$, and their product is divisible by $n$. The only excluded case is $a=b=2$. Thus four is an exception to the zero pattern, but still fails Wilson's theorem: its required remainder would be three.

This is an exact primality testing criterion, but direct evaluation is expensive: even reducing modulo $n$ after every multiplication still takes a number of multiplications proportional to $n$, which grows exponentially with the number of binary digits of $n$. The problem is not merely storing a huge factorial. The more useful role of Wilson's theorem is simplifying factorial expressions in modular arithmetic. For instance, if $p>2$ is a prime number, then $(p-1)(p-2)!\equiv -1(\mathrm{mod}p)$ gives $(p-2)!\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}p)$ by a modular multiplicative inverse.