multiplicative inverse of modulo m in scheme

Question

I\'ve written the code for multiplicative inverse of modulo m. It works for most of the initial cases but not for some. The code is below:

(define (inverse x m)
         


        

Answer 1

These two functions below can help you as well.

Theory

Here’s how we find the multiplicative inverse d. We want e*d = 1(mod n), which means that ed + nk = 1 for some integer k. So we’ll write a procedure that solves the general equation ax + by = 1, where a and b are given, x and y are variables, and all of these values are integers. We’ll use this procedure to solve ed + nk = 1 for d and k. Then we can throw away k and simply return d. >

(define (ax+by=1 a b)
        (if (= b 0)
            (cons 1 0)
            (let* ((q (quotient a b))
                   (r (remainder a b))
                   (e (ax+by=1 b r))
                   (s (car e))
                   (t (cdr e)))
           (cons t (- s (* q t))))))

This function is a general solution to an equation in form of ax+by=1 where a and b is given.The inverse-mod function simply uses this solution and returns the inverse.

 (define inverse-mod (lambda (a m) 
                  (if (not (= 1 (gcd a m)))
                      (display "**Error** No inverse exists.")
                      (if (> 0(car (ax+by=1 a m)))
                          (+ (car (ax+by=1 a m)) m)
                          (car (ax+by=1 a m))))))

Some test cases are :

(inverse-mod 5 11) ; -> 9 5*9 = 45 = 1 (mod 11)
(inverse-mod 9 11) ; -> 5
(inverse-mod 7 11) ; -> 8 7*8 = 56 = 1 (mod 11)
(inverse-mod 5 12) ; -> 5 5*5 = 25 = 1 (mod 12)
(inverse-mod 8 12) ; -> error no inverse exists