Talk:Modular division

Please write something here

If you don't like my "original research", please put something different here, not just a redirect.

From a user's point of view, it is very confusing to look for "Modular division", and get to a page that says nothing about modular division.

--Erel Segal (talk) 18:29, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please find reliable sources which discuss modular division for the case when the result isn't unique? For example, you wrote "The result of the division is unique modulu m/gcd(b,m)". Can you find an article or a book which says that and uses the term "modular division"? -- X7q (talk) 20:10, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For the case when modular inverse exists and so the result is unique, I've seen several RS which mention the term "modular division". E.g. [1], [2]. That's not enough to establish notability, but I think it's OK to create a subsection Multiplicative modular inverse#Modular division and mention this. Then you can change the redirect to point to that subsection. -- X7q (talk) 20:10, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found a few more sources: [3] (page 12), [4]. The last one discusses the case when the result isn't unique. So looks like it's not original research anymore. I vote for restoring http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modular_division&oldid=395757672 and adding these references to it. -- X7q (talk) 20:36, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]