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This is a famous theorem of number theory, so called because it was known to the ancient Chinese. Its proof is another application of the fact that the greatest common divisor of two numbers can be written as a linear combination of the two numbers.
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Childs, L. (1979). The Chinese Remainder Theorem. In: A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0065-6_14
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