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Task/Modular-inverse/Ada/modular-inverse.ada

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+with Ada.Text_IO;use Ada.Text_IO;
+procedure modular_inverse is
+  -- inv_mod calculates the inverse of a mod n. We should have n>0 and, at the end, the contract is a*Result=1 mod n
+  -- If this is false then we raise an exception (don't forget the -gnata option when you compile
+  function inv_mod (a : Integer; n : Positive) return Integer with post=> (a * inv_mod'Result) mod n = 1 is
+    -- To calculate the inverse we do as if we would calculate the GCD with the Euclid extended algorithm
+    -- (but we just keep the coefficient on a)
+    function inverse (a, b, u, v : Integer) return Integer is
+     (if b=0 then u else inverse (b, a mod b, v, u-(v*a)/b));
+  begin
+    return inverse (a, n, 1, 0);
+  end inv_mod;
+begin
+  -- This will output -48 (which is correct)
+  Put_Line (inv_mod (42,2017)'img);
+  -- The further line will raise an exception since the GCD will not be 1
+  Put_Line (inv_mod (42,77)'img);
+  exception when others => Put_Line ("The inverse doesn't exist.");
+end modular_inverse;